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State of New York 

HELD AT 


Carnegie Hall, New York City 
FEBRUARY 15-16, 1916 


Published under the Supervision of the Secretary of the Convention 


Headquarters: 

REPUBLICAN STATE COMMITTEE 
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Officers of the Convention 


TEMPORARY CHAIRMAN ' 

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OF NEW YORK 

PERMANENT CHAIRMAN 

JAMES W. WADSWORTH , Jr. 

OF MT. MORRIS 

SECRETARY 

LAFAYETTE B. GLEASON 


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OF THE 

New York 

Republican State Convention 

HELD AT 

CARNEGIE HALL, NEW YORK 
February 15th, 1916 

8 o’clock p. m. 

The Convention was called to order by Chairman Frederick C. Tan¬ 
ner, of the Republican State Committee. 

Prayer by Rev. De Witt L. Pelton of New York City. 

Almighty and ever living God, we acknowledge Thee to be the 
Lord. Heaven and Earth doth worship Thee, the Father everlasting. 
To Thee all angels cry aloud Holyl Holy! Holy! Heaven and 
Earth are full of the majesty of Thy glory. Thou, Lord, art the 
giver of every good and perfect gift. Thou openest Thine hand and 
fittest all things living with plenteousness. In Thy hands are all 
things, the affairs of men and of nations, the tiniest beings beneath 
space, as well as the mightiest constellation in the Heavens. We 
give Thee thanks, Oh, Lord, for all Thy goodness that we have re¬ 
ceived at Thy hands; Thy mercies, new every morning and fresh 
every evening; the blue of the sky, the shining of the sun, the joy 
and pride of life. We give Thee thanks for all the associations and 
fellowships of life; all the handclasps of friendship, the smiles of 
goodness, the joys of love and hope. We rejoice that we are citizens 
of this imperial Empire State, so mighty in its influence, so cosmo¬ 
politan in its power. We rejoice especially in this time of darkness 
and of war that we are dwellers in this wonderful land of ours, with 
its far-flung boundaries, its wide domains and its glorious institu¬ 
tions. Make us ever strong, Oh, Lord, to defend its liberties against 
all foes without and foes within; ever strong to defend its honor 
against all who would trample it in the dust. 


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Now, we beseech Thee that Thy blessing may rest upon this 
convention assembled in this hall to-night; that Thou guide us by 
Thy wisdom and direct us by Thy power, that all deliberations and 
consultations may be for the glory of Thy name, and for the ad¬ 
vancement of the cause of righteousness and of peace. And, finally, 
Oh, Lord, whatever Thou dost give or Thou dost withhold, grant, we 
beseech Thee, that amid all the tumults of factions, the strifes of 
parties and the National conflicts, that this nation of ours may be 
preserved, strong, honorable and efficient; that “government of the 
people, for the people and by the people,” may not perish from the 
earth, and to Thee will we give all the praise, both now and for¬ 
ever, Amen. 

CHAIRMAN TANNER: The secretary will read the call for 
the Convention, call the roll of delegates when corrections if any may 

be made. 

The Secretary of the Republican State Committee read the call 
for the convention, as follows: 

New York, January 15 , 1916 . 

To the Republican Voters of the State of New York: 

The Republican voters of the State of New York are hereby re¬ 
quested to send Delegates and Alternate Delegates to a State Con¬ 
vention to be held at Carnegie Hall, in the City of New York, on the 
15th day of February, 1916, at eight o’clock p. m., for the following 
purposes: 

- (1) To recommend to the enrolled Republican electorate of the 
State, for nomination at the Primary election to be held April 4th, 
1916, four candidates for delegates-at-large, and four candidates for 
alternate delegates-at-large, to the National Convention of the Re¬ 
publican Party, to be held at Chicago, Illinois, on the 7th day of June, 
1916. 

(2) To transact such other business as may properly come be¬ 
fore the Convention. 

Delegates and Alternate Delegates to the State Convention shall 
be chosen in such manner as the County Committee, or Executive 
Committee thereof, of each County may decide, provided however, 
that if 3 per centum or more of the enrolled Republican voters of any 
Assembly District petition therefor, then the Chairman of the 
County Committee must issue a call for a primary election to be held 
in said Assembly District on or before the 8th day of February, 
1916, at such place or places of convenient access in said District as 
said Chairman may direct, and due notice of said primary election 


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shall be given in the Republican paper or papers published in said 
county at least six days prior thereto. 

Such petitions must be filed with the Chairman of said Com¬ 
mittee on or before the 26th day of January, 1916, and meetings of 
the County Committee, or Executive Committee thereof, for pur¬ 
poses mentioned in this call, shall be held not earlier than the 27 th 
day of January, 1916, nor later than the 1st day of February, 1916, 
and the Chairman of each County Committee is hereby directed to 
publish a notice in one or more Republican papers in said County at 
least six days prior to said meeting of said County Committee, or 
Executive Committee thereof, notifying the enrolled Republican 
voters of the date of said meeting, and that a primary election will 
be held provided petitions are filed as above set forth. 

Immediately after delegates have been chosen to said State Con¬ 
vention the Chairman of the County Committees shall forward a 
list of same to the Secretary of the Republican State Committee, 43 
West 39th street, New York City. 

Each Assembly District in the State will be entitled to repre¬ 
sentation in accordance with the basis established by the State Con¬ 
vention of 1914 . A schedule of representation is hereto annexed, 
showing the number of delegates and alternate delegates to which 
the several Assembly Districts are entitled. 

FREDERICK C. TANNER, 

LAFAYETTE B. GLEASON, Chairman. 

Secretary. 

The Secretary called the Roll of the Convention by Assembly 
Districts, for the purpose of correction and substitution. 

REPUBLICAN STATE CONVENTION DELEGATES 
AND ALTERNATES. 

ALBANY COUNTY. 

FIRST ASSEMBLY DISTRICT. 

Delegates. 

Ellis J. Staley . 

Harold J. Hinman ., 

Rollin B. Sanford .. 

Charles E. Walsh ., 

James E. Huested . 

Frank Bloomingdale 

Philip Bender . 

Alwin C. Quentel . 

Daniel M. Mulville 
David E. Pugh ... 

William L. Vischer. 

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53 N. Pine Ave., Albany. 

357 Madison Ave., Albany. 

53 Dove St., Albany. 

244 Clinton Ave., Albany. 
Delmar. 

Voorheesville. 

New Scotland Ave., Albany. 
New Scotland Ave., Albany. 
188 Western Ave., Albany. 

156 Elm St., Albany. 

102 Washington Ave., Albany. 













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Alternates. 

Ledyard Cogswell, Jr. 
Philip L. Classen 

John J. McCall . 

William L. L. Peltz .. 
John V. D. H. Bradt . 
Wellington R. Merritt 
Alonzo G. Spalding ... 
Richard J. Grace 

John H. Baker . 

Eddy S. Haswell . 

Albert F. Oswald 


141 Washington Ave., Albany. 
315 Hamilton St., Albany. 

521 Washington Ave., Albany. 
Selkirk. 

Feura Bush. 

Medusa. 

Greenville, RED. 

64 Jefferson St., Albany. 

74 Washington Ave., Albany. 
496 Madison Ave., Albany. 
Rensselaerville. 


SECOND ASSEMBLY DISTRICT. 

Delegates. 

John H. Rea .145 Northern Blvd., Albany. 

William P. Hoyland .136 Greeh St., Albany. 

John G. Malone .67 Quail St., Albany. 

Frederick Easton .15 Ten Broeck St., Albany. 

Charles F. W. Gazeley.Margaret Cottage, Albany. 

Edward F. Dempsey .78 Cherry St., Albany. 

George J. Heim .65 Livingston Ave., Albany. 

John J. Riley.1235 Broadway, Albany. 

Martin J. Koonz.437 First St., Albany. 

Alden P. Coates ...58 Park Ave., Albany. 


Alternates. 

Joseph A. Tholl . 

Herman H. DeRouville 

Nelson Boyd . 

William R. Shafer .. . 

Frank Otto, Sr. 

Perley S. Kling. 

Charles A. Hilton .... 

Martin Sebast . 

John Fulton . 

James Clark, Jr. 


. 70 Clinton St., Albany. 
.88 Second St., Albany. 
.265 First St., Albany. 

.676 Central Ave., Albany. 
.5 Leonard St., Albany. 
.79 Beaver St., Albany. 

. 17 S. Ferry St., Albany. 
.111 Third St., Albany. 

. 12 Myrtle Ave., Albany. 
.50 Madison Ave., Albany. 


THIRD ASSEMBLY DISTRICT. 

Delegates. 

William Barnes .McKnownsville. 

IJenry M. Sage .Menands. 

Thomas Wheatcroft .110 Fourth St., Watervliet. 

Alexander S. MacAffee .11 Hudson Ave., Green Island. 

James H. Mitchell .268 Remsen St., Cohoes. 


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Daniel C. McElwain 
James M. Gaffers ... 
Joseph J. Mailloux .. 

Alternates. 

Walter D. Burt . 

Miller Hay . 

Edmond N. Amyot . 
Fred P. Hockstrasser 

Allen Lewis . 

Sebastian W. Pitts .. 
James A. Simpson ... 
Edward A. Foley 


Columbia St., Cohoes. 
Colonie. 

1516 Sixth Ave., Watervliet. 


604 Twelfth St., Watervliet. 
105 Mohawk St., Cohoes. 

30 Younglove Ave., Cohoes. 
Berne. 

Knox. 

Lathams, Colonie. 

1290 3rd Ave., Watervliet. 

29 White St., Cohoes. 


ALLEGANY COUNTY. 


Delegates. 

Frank R. Utter .Friendship. 

Frank Sullivan Smith .Angelica. 

William Duke, Jr.Wellsville. 

B. J. Rice .Friendship. 

D. P. Snyder .Belmont. 

Alternates. 

C. C. Heselton .Whitesville. 

R. L. Richardson .Fillmore. 

Harry Craig .Canaseraga. 

A. J. Matson .Boliver. 

Eldyn Reynolds .Belmont. 


BRONX COUNTY. 

THIRTY-SECOND ASSEMBLY DISTRICT. 
Delegates. 

John J. Knewitz .3424 Ollinville Ave., Bronx. 

Wm. H. Ten Eyck .310 Alexander Ave., Bronx. 

Morris S. Schector.445 E. 140th St., Bronx. 

Bernard Hahn .467 E. 141st St., Bronx. 

Geo. W. Tarrant .258 E. 139th St., Bronx. 

John L. Burgoyne .295 E. 139th St., Bronx. 

Charles L. Halberstadt .819 Manida St., Bronx. 

John H. Nichols .2946 Walker Ave., Bronx. 

Richard Dunn .1369 Leland Ave., Bronx. 

Andrew Johnson .City Island, Bronx. 


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Alternates. 

Henry V. Becker ..Grant Ave., Westchester, Bronx. 

J. Stewart Wilson .1018 E. 163rd St., Bronx. 

Isaac Oppenheimer .485 E. 140th St., Bronx. 

Isaac Newman .941 Intervale Ave., Bronx. 

Harry Friedman .935 Longwood Ave., Bronx. 

Louis P. Grimier .1031 Southern Blvd., Bronx. 

Samuel J. Joseph .837 Beck St., Bronx. 

Peter A. Abeles .901 Fox St., Bronx. 

Thos. L. Green .4735 Bronx Blvd., Bronx. 

Daniel H. Oehler .1823 Amethyst St., Bronx. 


THIRTY-THIRD ASSEMBLY DISTRICT. 

Delegates. 

Alfred B. Simonds 
Edward H. Healy 
William Stevenson 

Isidor Silver . 

George P. Zipf ... 

Alternates. 

George H. Ganong ...3007 3rd Ave., Bronx. 

Leopold Lehman .724 E. 156th St., Bronx. 

Fred H. Dressel .290 E. 160th St., Bronx. 

Christian Hasselhoff, Jr.363 E. 157th St., Bronx. 

Hugo Martin .408 E. 158th St., Bronx. 

THIRTY-FOURTH ASSEMBLY DISTRICT. 
Delegates. 

Ernest W. Bradbury . 

John Boyle, Jr. 

John A. Greer . 

J. Clifford McChristie 
Charles E. Buchner . 

Michael J. Reagan .. 

Frank V. Barnes .... 

Rudolph Matzke .... 

Louis Castagnetta .. 

Abraham I. Solomon 

Alternates. 

William Schnaufer, Jr.1127 Tiffany St., Bronx. 

George W. Dauler .1140 Tiffany St., Bronx. 

Albert Rossdale .1975 Maples Ave., Bronx. 


1239 Boston Rd., Bronx. 

865 E. 175th St., Bronx. 

1055 Forest Ave., Bronx. 

1165 Boston Rd., Bronx. 

1956 Crotona Parkway, Bronx. 
2079 Honeywell Ave., Bronx. 
1876 Arthur Ave., Bronx. 

927 Home St., Bronx. 

1105 Hoe Ave., Bronx. 

1057 Prospect Ave., Bronx. 


807 Cauldwell Ave., Bronx. 
3142 Park Ave., Bronx. 

757 E. 155th St., Bronx. 
3194 3rd Ave., Bronx. 

583 Teasdale PI., Bronx. 


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Morris Rosenblum .1763 Fulton Ave., Bronx. 

Arthur Bopp .665 Jefferson PL, Bronx. 

Minor O. Russ .1320 Fulton Ave., Bronx. 

Otis L. R. Fowler .741 E. 176th St., Bronx. 

Julius D. Tobias .1956 Crotona Parkway, Bronx. 

Otto Henschel .810 Ritter PL, Bronx. 

Louis Mann .976 Tinton Ave., Bronx. 


THIRTY-FIFTH ASSEMBLY DISTRICT. 


Delegates. 

Thomas W. Whittle .2332 University Ave., Bronx. 

Douglas Mathewson .2024 Creston Ave., Bronx. 

Richard W. Lawrence .2519 Sedgwick Ave., Bronx. 

James Hamilton .1023 Nelson Ave., Bronx. 

James A. Milligan .2741 Creston Ave., Bronx. 

Henry D. Patton .2470 Webb Ave., Bronx. 

Bernard J. Iseke .68 Clinton PL, Bronx. 

Henry K. Davis .2471 Devoe Terrace, Bronx. 

John Yule .943 Grant Ave., Bornx. 

Alternates. 

Wm. F. McConnell . 

Charles E. Jones ... 

Edw. C. Becherer ... 

James Daley . 

Walter J. Webster . 

Wm. H. Brown. 

Charles A. Herrmann 
Charles W. Irving .. 

Albert L. Hetzer .. . 

BROOME COUNTY. 


2418 University Ave., Bronx. 

340 E. 234th St., Bronx. 

107 W. 183rd St., Bronx. 

2620 Briggs Ave., Bronx. 

3049 Kingsbridge Terrace, Bronx. 
343 E. 195th St., Bronx. 

1018 Woodycrest Ave., Bronx. 

33 W. 184th St., Bronx. 

2419 Jerome Ave., Bronx. 


Delegates. 

Charles S. Butler .Harpersville. 

Samuel L. Smith.Binghamton. 

George A. Kent .Binghamton. 

Eugene H. Porter .Upper Lisle. 

Hiram H. Woodburn .Binghamton. 

Thomas A. MacClary .Union. 

C. Mossman McLean .Binghamton. 

Frederick W. Welsh .Binghamton 


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Alternates. 

William H. Weeks .Harpersville. 

Henry S. Ingalls .Maine. 

Edwin J. Cole .Binghamton. 

Daniel G. Underwood.Deposit. 

Herbert A. Williams .Great Bend, Pa., R. D., No. 1. 

Fred L. Yingling .Binghamton. 

Charles G. Blakeslee .Binghamton. 

Lawrence W. Boynton.Whitney Point. 

CATTARAUGUS COUNTY. 


Delegates. 

A. T. Fancher ... 
N. V. V. Franchot 

G. E. Spring . 

D. H. Ames . 

B. L. Andrews ... 

Foster Studholm . 
G. A. Larkin . 


Salamanca. 

Olean. 

Franklinville. 

Franklinville. 

Salamanca. 

Olean. 

Olean. 


Alternates. 

W. H. Eldridge . 

E. E. Kelley. 

W. W. Welch .. 
Dr. E. Bolard ... 
M. G. Fitzpatrick 
Dr. H. H. Ashley 
E. J. Cheney - 


Leon. 

Little Valley. 

Gowanda. 

Salamanca. 

Olean. 

Machias. 

Sandusky. 


CAYUGA COUNTY. 


Delegates. 

Geo. W. Benham 
Chas. J. Hewitt . 
Arthur E. Blauvelt 
Joseph S. Hanlon 
Arthur L. Smith .. 
Jesse E. Ferris ... 
Edgar S. Mosher 
Daniel S. Wright 


36 West Lake Ave., Auburn. 
Locke. 

Port Byron. 

6 Perrine St., Auburn. 

25 Liberty St., Auburn. 
Meridian. 

26 Grand Ave., Auburn. 
Weedsport. 


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Alternates. 

Thos. H. O’Neill .5 Howard St., Auburn. 

Robt. Manchester .Merrifield. 

Frank W. Hendricks .R. D. No. 57, Sterling Station. 

Samuel Taylor . *.52 Hamilton Ave., Auburn. 

B. Frank Buchanan .Moravia. 

Geo. R. Burnett .Cato. 

Harry V. Clements .112 Owasco St., Auburn. 

Earl Warwick .R. D., Auburn. 


CHAUTAUQUA COUNTY. 

FIRST ASSEMBLY DISTRICT. 

Delegates. 

Leon L. Fancher . 

Fred P. Simmons 
Royal M. Bates .. 

H. S. Sweetland .. 

Gustaf A. Lawson 

C. L. Edwards .. 

Henri M. Hall .... 

A Iternates. 


Luther S. Lakin, Jr.Jamestown. 

A. Morelle Cheney .Bemus Point 

George L. Maltby .Jamestown. 

Floyd D. Rider .Gerry. 

Robert G. Swanson .Jamestown, 

Herbert R. Bennett .Frewsburg 

Ollie Olson .Falconer. 

SECOND ASSEMBLY DISTRICT. 

Delegates. 

Joseph A. McGinnies .Ripley. 

John Leo Sullivan .Dunkirk. 

Charles Shoemaker .Silver Creek 

Arthur R. Maytum.Fredonia. 

Henry M. Keith .Sherman. 

William R. Nowak.Dunkirk. 

Alternates. 

Martin P. Whallon .Mayville. 

D. U. Herrick .Sheridan. 

Sam F. Nixon ....Westfield. 

J. D. Gallup .Clymer. 

August Raths .Dunkirk. 

Charles Ballenger .Silver Creek. 

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Jamestown. 

Busti. 

Jamestown. 

South Dayton, R. D. 
Jamestown. 

Cherry Creek. 
Jamestown. 



































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CHEMUNG COUNTY. 


Delegates. 

Hubert C. Mandeville .Elmira. 

Seymour Lowman *.Elmira. 

Otis A. Leonard .Elmira. 

William T. Coleman .Elmira. 

Milo Shanks .Elmira. 


Alternates. 

Chas. N. Hammond 
Henry C. Miller .. 

Fordyce Knapp ... 

Frank P. Jones_ 

Edwin D. Burgess . 

CHENANGO COUNTY. 


Elmira Heights. 
Elmira. 

Elmira. 

Seeley Creek. 
Horseheads. 


Delegates. 

James S. Flanagan . 

Bert Lord . 

Geo. P. Pudney . 

Fred L. Ames . 


Alternates. 

Chas. L. Carrier . 

Chas. S. Holcomb .. 

Arthur H. Button .. 

Jos. E. Juliand .. 



CLINTON COUNTY. 


Delegates. 


John F. O’Brien . 


G. R. Heyworth . 


J. M. Hackett . 


P. J. Tierney .. 


Wallace E. Pierce . 


Alternates. 

P. A. Fessette . 


D. A. Stafford . 


R. E. Healey . 


Wallace Turner . 


C. E. Inman . 



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COLUMBIA COUNTY. 

Delegates. 

Sanford W. Smith 

Charles Tracy . 

Lemuel E. Quigg .. 

Alfred B. Chase ... 

Jos. F. Gangloff ... 

Frank R. Hathaway 

CORTLAND COUNTY. 


.Chatham. 

. Ghent. 

. Austerlitz. 
. Hudson. 

, Philmont. 

. Hudson. 


Delegates. 

Rollin E. Wright .Cortland. 

James F. Tobin .Cortland. 

B. R. Baldwin .Cincinnatus. 

Fred T. Newcomb .Homer. 

Harry C. Chappee .McGraw. 

Alternates. 

Edward Alley .Cartland. 

Sidney Stinard .Harford. 

William Albro .Cuyler. 

Chas. Merrill .Homer. 

James G. McDermott .Cortland. 


DELAWARE COUNTY. 


Delegates. 

A. B. Shaw .Hamden. 

William Penny .Hancock. 

A. C. Wyer .Delhi. 

W. G. More .Walton. 

W. T. Austin .Margaretville. 


Alternates. 

James F. Foreman 
W. VA Bates .... 
Clair Whittaker .. 
Augustus Holmes 
Frank Kettle . 


Bovina Center. 
Sidney. 

Trout Creek. 

Downsville. 

Margaretville. 


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DUTCHESS COUNTY. 

FIRST ASSEMBLY DISTRICT. 

Delegates. 

John T. Smith .Beacon. 

Geo. W. Tuttle .Pine Plains. 

E. Darwin Morse .Amenia. 

John F. Schlosser.Beacon. 

Myron Smith .Millbrook. 

Benjamin Hammond .Beacon. 

Alternates. 

Thomson E. Goring .Wappingers Falls. 

Frank A. Brockway .Brockway. 

John A. Hanna .Dover Plains. 

Irving Dutcher .Green Haven. 

Cyrus F. Morehouse .Red Hook. 

William Marshall .Salt Point. 

SECOND ASSEMBLY DISTRICT. 

Delegates. 

W. E. Hoysradt .... 

Frank Van Kleeck .. 

William B. Dinsmore 
George Overocker .. 

James A. Lavery ... 

Clinton D. Parkhill . 


Alternates. 

William S. Massonneau.Red Hook. 

Harry Pottenburgh .Rhinebeck. 

Samuel B. Irish .Poughkeepsie. 

John B. Grubb .Poughkeepsie. 

Mark G. DuBois .Poughkeepsie. 

Clarence Fowler .Poughkeeps^. 


ERIE COUNTY. 
FIRST ASSEMBLY DISTRICT. 


Delegates. 

Alex Taylor .115 Franklin St., Buffalo. 

John Ryan .Ellicott Sq., Buffalo. 

Thos Flitcroft .45 W. Mohawk St., Buffalo 

Thos. McElvein .552 Niagara St., Buffalo. 

John Markett .85 West Chippewa St., Buffalo 

Geo. Romer .835 Niagara St., Buffalo. 


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Poughkeepsie. 

Poughkeepsie. 

25 Broad St., New York City 
Poughkeepsie. 

Poughkeepsie. 

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Alternates. 

Bart Otto .Erie County Bank Bldg., Buffalo. 

James J. Murphy .549 Front Ave., Buffalo. 

Harry Lambson .888 Main St., Buffalo. 

John Martin .420 Prospect Ave., Buffalo. 

Arthur Goltz .279 Franklin St., Buffalo. 

Elmer Gillettt .33 Chenango St., Buffalo. 


SECOND ASSEMBLY DISTRICT. 

Delegates. 

Clinton T. Horton .Mutual Life Bldg., Buffalo. 

Ross Graves .Erie Co. Bank Bldg., Buffalo. 

Wesley C. Dudley .City Hall. 

Chas. B. Sears .Fidelity Bldg., Buffalo. 

John L. O’Brian .Iroquois Bldg., Buffalo. 

Frank Sidway .194 Main St., Buffalo. 

E. H. Butler, Jr.“Buffalo News”, Buffalo. 

Lafayette C. Wilkie .Mutual Life Bldg., Buffalo. 

Richard Humphrey .Foot Porter Ave., Buffalo. 


Alternates. 

Max Becker .Ellicott Sq., Buffalo. 

James L. Crane .Tonawanda. 

Frank Pollock .292 West Delavan St., Buffalo. 

Gustave C. Miller .Teck Theatre Bldg., Buffalo. 

Henry W. Hill .Mutual Life Bldg., Buffalo. 

Fred Bradley .54 Lafayette Ave., Buffalo. 

Jos. M. Overfield .164 Albany St., Buffalo. 

Warren V. Clarke .59 Bird Ave., Buffalo. 

Leroy A. Lincoln .Insurance Dept., Albany. 


THIRD ASSEMBLY DISTRICT. 


Delegates. 

Michael Ulrich ... 
Ernest Martinke ... 
John Hannakam .. . 
Wm. O. Weimar ... 
Daniel J. O’Neil ... 
Chas. Guenther .... 
Alternates. 

Wm. Stambach .... 
Emil Rosenow .... 
Martin Heilbron . .. 
Edward Oberkircher 

Lewis Steam . 

Conrad Rohrbach .. 


694 Ellicott Sq., Buffalo. 

931 Jefferson St., Buffalo. 

51 Brown St., Buffalo. 

455 Monroe St., Buffalo. 

112 Mariner St., Buffalo. 

68 East North St., Buffalo. 

989 Michigan St., Buffalo. 
232 Orange St., Buffalo. 
Genesee St., Buffalo. 

328 Mortimer St., Buffalo. 
Ill College St., Buffalo. 

160 E. North St., Buffalo 


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FOURTH ASSEMBLY DISTRICT. 

Delegates. 

Elmer E. Harris ...22 Maurice St., Buffalo. 

Michael McGrath .Assembly Chamber, Albany. 

Wm. J. Taggart . 1036 Elk St., Buffalo. 

Edward W. Hodson .12 Leamington PI., Buffalo. 

Alternates. 

Wm. J. Burke ...City Hall, Buffalo. 

Andrew J. Keller .739 Seneca St., Buffalo. 

Bart J. Shanahan . 225 Hamburg St., Buffalo. 

Lewis Fechter .1150 Bailey Ave., Buffalo. 


FIFTH ASSEMBLY DISTRICT. 

Delegates. 

John T. Claris .612 Clinton St., Buffalo. 

Simon Seibert .Beck Brewing Co., Buffalo. 

Otto Werner .....Assembly Chamber, Albany. 

Henry George .Excise Dept., N. Y. City. 

Alternates. 

Wm. Metzger .569 Clinton St., Buffalo. 

Andrew Petit .378 S. Division St., Buffalo. 

John Moestberger .83 Emslie St., Buffalo. 

Rudolph Inderbitzen .176 Broadway, Buffalo. 


SIXTH ASSEMBLY DISTRICT. 

Delegates. 

Wm. C. Tenjost .87 Kruttner St., Buffalo. 

Valentine Truszkowski.932 Broadway, Buffalo. 

Joseph Mileweczyk .243 Detroit St., Buffalo. 

Peter C. Jezewski .173 Stanislaus St., Buffalo. 

Alternates. 

Henry Burtner .251 Madison St., Buffalo. 

Edward Obernauer .261 Peckham St., Buffalo. 

Max Shultz .482 Sweet Ave., Buffalo. 

Valentine Wojciechowski .155 Stanislaus St., Buffalo. 


SEVENTH ASSEMBLY DISTRICT. 

Delegates. 

Earl G. Danser, M. D.592 Walden Ave., Buffalo. 

Charles Reicher .214 Springer St., Buffalo. 

Henry Zilch .1804 Bailey Ave., Buffalo. 

George P. Urban .320 Oak St., Buffalo. 

John H. Meahl .City Hall, Buffalo. 

Joseph Roehmhile .Assembly Chamber, Albany. 

James Chalmers .Williamsville. 


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Alternates. 

George A. Davis .Lancaster. 

George Helfter .Williamsville. 

Joseph Becker .Ellicott Sq., Buffalo. 

George Milks .Lackawanna. 

Chas. Korn .1831 Genesee St., Buffalo. 

Chris. Schudt .Ebenezer. 

John Hein .Lancaster. 


EIGHTH ASSEMBLY DISTRICT. 

Delegates. 

John G. Wallenmeier .44 W. Eagle St., Buffalo. 

William Lansill .277 Depew St., Buffalo. 

Henry Seilheimer .211 Ellicott Sq., Buffalo. 

Arthur W. Kreinheder .Municipal Bldg., Buffalo. 

Frederick G. Bagley .Chamber of Commerce, Buffalo. 

Frank L. Kuhn .Land Brewing Co., Buffalo. 

Harry J. Knepper .50L Washington St., Buffalo. 

Frank Hossenloop .102 W. Parade St., Buffalo. 

Percy S. Landsdowne .Mutual Life Bldg., Buffalo. 

Leslie J. Bennett .Austin Bldg., Buffalo. 


Alternates. 

Albert Gordes . 

Fred B. Eberhardt ... 

F. E. Thieroff . 

Franklin W. Barrows 
Peter Edgecomb 

Geo. J. Ruehl. 

John H. Brinkman ... 
Henry W. Keitzel ... 

Alfred Lyth . 

Wm. J. Beier . 


Tonawanda. 

Kenmore. 

Co. Treasurer’s Office, Buffalo. 
1364 Michigan St., Buffalo. 

234 E. Ferry St., Buffalo. 

130 Eaton St., Buffalo. 

49 Riley St., Buffalo. 

47 Linden Park, Buffalo. 

48 W. Eagle St., Buffalo. 

66 E. Utica St., Buffalo. 


NINTH ASSEMBLY DISTRICT. 


Delegates. 

Horace F. Hunt .Excise Dept. Ellicott Sq., Buffalo. 

H. S. Sisson .Gowanda. 

Harry E. Barker .Springville. 

George H. Burgott ....Lawtons. 

Nelson Cheney .Eden. 

Frank B. Thorn .Orchard Park. 

Asher B. Emery .Marine Bank Bldg., Buffalo. 


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Alternates. 

Theodore Krehbeil .Clarence. 

John H. Clogston .Erie Co. Bank Bldg., Buffalo 

Jesse Bartoo .Porterville. 

Daniel C. Pierce .Hamburg. 

Chas. Wood .Angola. 

James Wood .Wales. 

Albert Schmill .Elmer Center. 


Delegates. 
R. T. Kenyon .. 

R. A. Severance 

P. J. Finn . 

Fred L. Porter 

Alternates. 
J. W. Bullen .. 

S. E. Phinney . 
F. A. Isham ... 
V. W. Prince .. 


ESSEX COUNTY. 

.Ausable Forks. 

.Willsboro. 

.Ticonderoga. 

.Crown Point. 

.Ticonderoga. 

.Wadhams Mills. 

.Lake Placid. 

.Elizabethtown. 


FRANKLIN COUNTY. 

Delegates. 

F. D. Kilburn .Malone. 

N. M. Marshall .Malone. 

W. T. Thayer .Chateaugay. 

F. J. Meigs .Tupper Lake. 

W. C. Leonard .Saranac Lake. 

Alternates. 

C. E. Brush .Miora. 

Dr. Sampson .Dickinson Center. 

Milo Collins .Burke. 

H. H. Lee .Bangor. 

Anson H. Ellsworth .Ft. Conington. 


FULTON & HAMILTON COUNTY. 


Delegates. 

J. Wm. Titcomb .Gloversville. 

Wm. B. Collins .Gloversville. 

William Harris .Northville. 

Fred King .Gloversville. 

J. Keck .Johnstown. 

Henry D. Kellogg .Long Lake. 


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Alternates. 

Fred Duesbury .Gloversville. 

James H. Yauney .Ephratah. 

Frank Satterlee .Northville. 

Herbert Montanve .Gloversville. 

James Argersinger .Johnstown. 

Herbert Snell .Northville. 

GENESEE COUNTY. 

Delegates. 

A. D. Sanders .Stafford. 

L. H. Wells .Pavilion. 

M. E. Betts .Batavia. 

J. H. Hume .Alexander. 

Thomas Larkin .LeRoy. 

Alternates. 

Charles Powers .East Pembroke. 

F. D. Worch .Bergen. 

Fred Halsey .Oakfield. 

George Fleming .Bethany. 

George Hackley .Batavia. 

GREENE COUNTY. 

Delegates. 

William E. Thorpe .Catskill. 

Harding Showers .Tannersville. 

Lincoln S. Hart .Catskill. 

William T. Haswell .West Coxsackle. 

Alternates. 

Harvey S. Olmstead .Cairo. 

George Osborn .Windham. 

D. Harold Bush .Catskill. 

Frank S. Howland .Athens. 

HERKIMER COUNTY. 

Delegates. 

D. F. Strobel .Herkimer. 

Abram Zoller .Little Falls. 

Ward E. Hunt.Little Falls. 

Charles L. Fellows .Newport. 

Harry Dopp .Dolgeville. 

Theodore D. Robinson .N. Y. City. 

Frank A. Schmidt .Ilion. 


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Alternates. 

E. LaGrange Smith 
William S. Rhodes . 

Mathew Foley . 

Frank A. Conrad .. 

Willis Maine . 

Myron Crandall 
Olive E. Hollenbeck 


Frankfort. 
Little Falls. 
Little Falls. 
Cold Brook. 
Dolgeville. 
West Winfield. 
Ilion. 


JEFFERSON COUNTY. 

FIRST ASSEMBLY DISTRICT. 


Delegates. 

E. R. Brown .Watertown. 

H. E. Machold .Ellisburg. 

Francis M. Hugo .Watertown. 

F. S. Kenyon .Adams. 

C. B. Alverson .Watertown. 

A. C. Ryder .Watertown. 

Alternates. 

Jasper Cornaire 
William Mather 
Ernest Gillette 
Allen Dryden . 

Chester Reese . 

George Herrick 

SECOND ASSEMBLY DISTRICT. 


Cape Vincent. 

Henderson. 

Pamelia. 

Watertown. 

Clayton. 

Claumont. 


Delegates. 

George H. Cobb_ 

Willard S. Augsbury 

E. J. Tallman . 

Michael Gleason 

A. B. Parker . 

Alternates. 

C. B. Wood . 

W. H. Gardner . 

S. H. Slack. 

F. Howard Scott ... 

H. D. Reed . 


Watertown. 

Antwerp. 

Lafargeville. 

Carthage. 

Watertown. 


Evans Mills. 
Philadelphia. 
Felts Mills. 
Alexandria Bay. 
Watertown. 


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KINGS COUNTY. 

FIRST ASSEMBLY DISTRICT. 

Delegates. 

H. D. Ralston .51 Clark St., Brooklyn. 

Michael J. Hogan .171 Warren St., Brooklyn. 

William Boardman .18 Clinton St., Brooklyn. 

Alexander M. White .52 Remsen St., Brooklyn. 

Alternates. 

A. F. Wunenburger .227 Pacific St., Brooklyn. 

David M. Stone .377 State St., Brooklyn. 

Henry S. Goodspeed .62 Columbia Hghts., Brooklyn. 

R. Hunter McQuistion .144 Montague St., Brooklyn. 

SECOND ASSEMBLY DISTRICT. 

Delegates. 

Robert Welwood .277 Gold St., Brooklyn. 

John S. Armstrong .76 Prince St., Brooklyn. 

Alternates. 

William L. Berand .205 Bridge St., Brooklyn. 

Gaetano Parisi .28 Duffield St., Brooklyn. 


THIRD ASSEMBLY DISTRICT. 

Delegates. 

Richard H. Laimbeer, Jr.9 First PI., Brooklyn. 

M. J. Wheeler .44 Third PI., Brooklyn. 

Alternates. 

Antonio DeMartini .248 President St., Brooklyn. 

R. H. DeMars .-..339 Van Brunt St., Brooklyn. 


FOURTH ASSEMBLY DISTRICT. 

Delegates. 

John S. Gaynor . 

Andrew D. Baire 
Paul Windels ... 

George Langhorst 


Alternates. 

Samuel Rosenberg .257 Hooper St., Brooklyn. 

Louis C. Wills .676 Bedford Ave., Brooklyn. 

Samuel Greenstein .154 Keap Ave., Brooklyn. 

Paul L. Chapman .154 Keap St., Brooklyn. 


136 Keap St., Brooklyn. 

140 Hewes St., Brooklyn. 
162 Lee Ave., Brooklyn. 

133 Rutledge St., Brooklyn. 


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FIFTH ASSEMBLY DISTRICT. 

Delegates. 

Thomas B. Lineburgh .737 Quincy St., Brooklyn. 

George Marshall .,...273 Lewis Ave., Brooklyn. 

John Wirth .47 Bainbridge St., Brooklyn. 

A. F. Lent.960 Jefferson Ave., Brooklyn. 

A. Stewart Walsh .643 Madison St., Brooklyn. 

Charles B. Morton .829 Monroe St., Brooklyn. 

Arthur R. Seward.693 Jefferson Ave., Brooklyn. 

Alternates. 

Robert J. Black .267 Lewis Ave., Brooklyn. 

James R. Weston .575a Macon St., Brooklyn. 

August Albers .761a Madison St., Brooklyn. 

Charles Williams .355 Marion St., Brooklyn. 

William E. Cutler .181 Reid Ave., Brooklyn. 

C. Arthur Kenney .761 Putnam Ave., Brooklyn. 

Louis Blausten .983 Gates Ave., Brooklyn. 

SIXTH ASSEMBLY DISTRICT. 

Delegates. 

John Diemer .43 Ellery St., Brooklyn. 

Nathan D. Shapiro .660 Willoughby Ave., Brooklyn. 

Richard E. Weber .46 Sumner Ave., Brooklyn. 

William A. Griffith .55 Hart St., Brooklyn. 

Alternates. 

Samuel Schmalheiser .827 Park Ave., Brooklyn. 

John Henegin, Jr.586 Marcy Ave., Brooklyn. 

Michael Stein .239 Hart St., Brooklyn. 

William A. Dennis .973 Myrtle Ave., Brooklyn. 

SEVENTH ASSEMBLY DISTRICT. 

Delegates. 

Charles S. Devoy .137 14th St., Brooklyn. 

John Feitner . 156 23rd St., Brooklyn. 

Henry Fischer .510 7th Ave., Brooklyn. 

Alternates. 

John J. Rowan .363 20th St., Brooklyn. 

Theodore Beck .629 46th St., Brooklyn. 

John J. Barrett .128 18th St., Brooklyn. 


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EIGHTH ASSEMBLY DISTRICT. 


Delegates. 

Jacob Brenner .252 Carroll St., Brooklyn. 

Emil O. Brandes .51 Butler St., Brooklyn. 

Samuel Greason, Jr.281 Carroll St., Brooklyn. 

Alternates. 

Charles A. Walter .307 Degraw St., Brooklyn. 

Charles W. Beyrer .17 3rd Ave., Brooklyn. 

Harry W. Beadle .320 Union St., Brooklyn. 

NINTH ASSEMBLY DISTRICT. 


Delegates. 

Charles S. Warbasse 
Edward B. Valentine 
William H. Bogus, Jr. 

Otto F. Weiss . 

Joseph Rosenbaum .. 

Alfred Semken . 

George A. Voss . 

Edward Hartung .... 
Michael H. Rose _ 

Alternates. 

Daniel Henkel . 

Harry W. Clayton ... 
John J. McPartland 
Wilmot Morehouse .., 

Charles A. Yoos . 

James T. Carroll . 

Aaron Bearman . 

David Evans . 

Albert Firth . 


131 76th St., Brooklyn. 
634 52nd St., Brooklyn. 
626 57th St., Brooklyn. 
1261 41st St., Brooklyn. 
240 51st St., Brooklyn. 
336 49th St., Brooklyn. 
264 74th St., Brooklyn. 
941 72nd St., Brooklyn. 
1139 45th St., Brooklyn. 


,234 55th St., Brooklyn. 
,656 50th St., Brooklyn. 
,472 57th St., Brooklyn. 

130 88th St., Brooklyn. 

520 53rd St., Brooklyn. 
735 50th St., Brooklyn. 
576 73rd St., Brooklyn. 
1044 75th St., Brooklyn. 
4110 10th Ave., Brooklyn. 


TENTH ASSEMBLY DISTRICT. 


Delegates. 

Charles F. Murphy .... 

William Berri . 

Charles A. Schieren .... 
William A. Prendergast 
William R. Fagan . 


292 Clinton Ave., Brooklyn. 
467 Clinton Ave., Brooklyn. 
405 Clinton Ave., Brooklyn. 
85 8th Ave., Brooklyn. 

149 Waverly Ave., Brooklyn. 


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Alternates. 

Leo V. Doherty .191 Sterling PI., Brooklyn. 

Robert J. Reardon .80 Vanderbilt Ave., Brooklyn. 

Harry Sylvester .652 Washington Ave., Brooklyn. 

Samuel H. Andrews .55 8th Ave., Brooklyn. 

Robert Jackson .660 Classon Ave., Brooklyn. 


ELEVENTH ASSEMBLY DISTRICT. 


Delegates. 

Alfred E. Vass .131 Quincy St., Brooklyn. 

Eugene M. Travis .436 Grand Ave., Brooklyn. 

Henry E. Chapman .316 Lafayette Ave., Brooklyn. 

George R. Brennan .1140 Pacific St., Brooklyn. 

George Roberts .20 Cambridge PI., Brooklyn. 


Alternates. 

William P. Bannister 

W. J. S. Ryall . 

John J. Walker .... 
John G. Murray .... 
Levi W. Naylor - 


109 Cambridge PI., Brooklyn. 
214 Lefferts PI., Brooklyn. 

13 St. Francis PI., Brooklyn. 
2 Monroe St., Brooklyn. 

345 St. John’s PI., Brooklyn. 


TWELFTH ASSEMBLY DISTRICT. 


Delegates. 

John T. Rafferty .242 Garfield PI., Brooklyn. 

Wm. M. Calder .551 First St., Brooklyn. 

Meier Steinbrink .18 Fuller PI., Brooklyn. 

William T. Simpson .523 Sixth St., Brooklyn. 

John D. Gunther .322 15th St., Brooklyn. 

H. Murray LaMont .135 Broadway, New York City. 

Alternates. 

Michael Furst .115 Prospect Park W., Brooklyn. 

William J. Maxwell .651 10th St., Brooklyn. 

Fred’k H. Stevenson .198 7th Ave., Brooklyn. 

Louis W. Severy .-....408 8th Ave., Brooklyn. 

Denis M. Hurley .422 5th St., Brooklyn. 

Lester D. Reekie .325 15th St., Brooklyn. 


THIRTEENTH ASSEMBLY DISTRICT. 


Delegates. 

Jesse D. Moore .129 Devoe St., Brooklyn. 

Francis F. Williams .25 Orient Ave., Brooklyn. 

John F. Dower .219 Manhattan Ave., Brooklyn. 
































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Alternates. 

William H. Porter.62 Powers St., Brooklyn. 

Frank F. Schulz .17 Orient Ave., Brooklyn. 

Philip Tuone .140 Skillman Ave., Brooklyn. 


FOURTEENTH ASSEMBEY DISTRICT. 


Delegates. 

George A. Owens .117 S. 1st St., Brooklyn. 

Martin Keller .44 Meserole Ave., Brooklyn. 

Thomas McGahey .40 Grand St., Brooklyn. 

Alternates. 

A. A. Higgins .218 North 6th St., Brooklyn. 

Gustave Adolph .172 North 8th St., Brooklyn. 

Harry G. Huck .151 Franklin St., Brooklyn. 


FIFTEENTH ASSEMBLY DISTRICT. 


Delegates. 

Richard Wright .55 Jewell St., Brooklyn. 

John MacCrate .134 Milton St., Brooklyn. 

Frank M. Davis .47 Hausman St., Brooklyn. 

Alternates „ 

Charles Hulseman .145 Milton St., Brooklyn. 

John Nicholas Droge .562 Humboldt St., Brooklyn. 

Benjamin B. Mullen .1109 Manhattan Ave., care of Ed 

wards Hotel, Brooklyn. 


SIXTEENTH ASSEMBLY DISTRICT. 

Delegates. 

Marcus B. Campbell .4654 Bedford Ave., Brooklyn. 

Samuel R. Green .1446 46th St., Brooklyn. 

Robert H. Bosse .719 E. 10th St., Brooklyn. 

James L. Gernon .411 Albemarle Road, Brooklyn. 

George M. Conrady .136 Bay 10th St., Brooklyn. 

Hans Kronika .2265 Emmons Ave., Brooklyn. 

Stephen F. Barrera .2113 Mermaid Ave., Brooklyn. 

Arnasa Thornton ....1902 65th St., Brooklyn. 

Ernest A. Seebeck, Jr.1051 E. 23rd St., Brooklyn. 


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Alternates. 

Richard Melville .1519 75th St., Brooklyn. 

Michael Hines .2215 Coney Island Ave., Brooklyn. 

Kenneth S. Johnson .808 Cortelyou Rd., Brooklyn 

Elwin S. Piper .1690 Ocean Ave., Brooklyn. 

Fred W. Hearn .1430 Avenue G., Brooklyn. 

Randolph Burgess .284 Windsor PI., Brooklyn. 

Edwin M. LaRoche.2337 E. 21st St., Brooklyn. 

Forrest S. Chilton .1657 E. 21st St., Brooklyn. 

Sigmund Beck .2775 Henry St., Brooklyn. 

SEVENTEENTH ASSEMBLY DISTRICT. 

Delegates. 

Lewis M. Swasey .42 Herkimer St., Brooklyn. 

Harry W. Smith .562a Lafayette Ave., Brooklyn. 

David E. Kemlo .315 Macon St., Brooklyn. 

Wm. P. Rae .209 Quincy St., Brooklyn. 

Alvah W. Burlingame, Jr.96 Hancock St., Brooklyn. 

Chas. J. Williams .1591 Pacific St., Brooklyn. 

Alternates. 

Adam H. Liech.314 Monroe St., Brooklyn. 

R. Emmett Dougherty .552 Jefferson Ave., Brooklyn. 

Samuel Trimble .285 Putnam Ave., Brooklyn. 

Fred Smith .105 McDonough St., Brooklyn. 

James E. Sullivan .360 Tompkins Ave., Brooklyn. 

Eugene Gombers .537 Madison St., Brooklyn. 

EIGHTEENTH ASSEMBLY DISTRICT. 

Delegates. 

F. J. H. Kracke .11 Kenmore PI., Brooklyn. 

Lewis H. Pounds .217 E. 17th St., Brooklyn. 

J. J. Keller .44 Woodruff Ave., Brooklyn., 

John Drescher .684 St. Marks Ave., Brooklyn. 

Charles W. Maynard.428 E. 18th St., Brooklyn. 

James C. Cropsey .1700 Albemarle Rd., Brooklyn. 

Richard Young .97 Lincoln Rd., Brooklyn. 

Arnon L. Squires .226 New York Ave., Brooklyn. 

Charles A. Ditmas .60 Amersfort PI., Brooklyn. 

Travis H. Whitney .177 Woodruff Ave., Brooklyn. 

J. Arthur Hilton .34 Rugby Rd., Brooklyn. 


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Alternates. 

W. E. Soper.1190 Dean St., Brooklyn. 

W. P. Griffith.90 Rogers Ave., Brooklyn. 

Reuben Welson .2718 Newkirk Ave., Brooklyn. 

Clarence B. Smith .1446 President St., Brooklyn. 

Harry W. Taylor .1787 Brooklyn Ave., Brooklyn. 

Warren I. Lee .214 Parkside Ave., Brooklyn. 

Almeth W. Hoff .460 Stratford Rd., Brooklyn. 

W. H. Van Kleeck.1316 Dean St., Brooklyn. 

Warren G. Price ...1366 Park PI., Brooklyn. 

W. G. Yates .805 Prospect PI., Brooklyn. 

Robt. G. Newbegin .69 Midwood St., Brooklyn. 


NINETEENTH ASSEMBLY DISTRICT. 


Delegates. 

Jacob Bartscherer .178 Evergreen Ave., Brooklyn. 

Otto Muhlbauer .25 Jefferson St., Brooklyn. 

George Senn .64 Suydam St., Brooklyn. 

Maxwell C. Burger .69 Suydam St., Brooklyn. 

Alternates. 

August Zimmermann .84 Cedar St., Brooklyn. 

Peter Larkin .106 St. Nicholas Ave., Brooklyn. 

John Klein .767 Bushwick Ave., Brooklyn. 

Frederick Brehm .199 Stockholm St., Brooklyn. 


TWENTIETH ASSEMBLY DISTRICT. 


Delegates. 

William Schnitzpan .53 Woodbine St., Brooklyn. 

Robt. R. Lawson .24 Woodbine St., Brooklyn. 

Harrison C. Glore .1035 Madison Ave., Brooklyn. 

John Bulck, Jr.89 Harmon St., Brooklyn. 

John T. Bladen .108 Weirfield St., Brooklyn. 

William H. Pendry .1035 Bushwick Ave., Brooklyn. 

Alternates. 

A. C. Flamman .1135 Lafayette Ave., Brooklyn. 

George Straub, Jr.1135 Jefferson Ave., Brooklyn. 

Frank Bennett .1362 Bushwick Ave., Brooklyn. 

Albert Fox .1141 Greene Ave., Brooklyn. 

George Brettman .1047 Halsey St., Brooklyn. 


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TWENTY-FIRST ASSEMBLY DISTRICT. 


Delegates. 

Adolph Levy .101 Montrose Ave., Brooklyn. 

Frederick Williams .350 S. 5th St., Brooklyn. 

Charles C. G. Sprenger .349 S. 4th St., Brooklyn. 

Alternates. 

William Mack .417 Lorimer St., Brooklyn. 

John McCauley .31 Beaver St., Brooklyn. 

George Lieberknecht .52 Throop Ave., Brooklyn. 

TWENTY-SECOND ASSEMBLY DISTRICT. 

Delegates. 

Jacob A. Livingston .134 Hale Ave., Brooklyn. 

Charles H. Duff .1397 Madison St., Brooklyn. 

Charles J. Moore .119 Crystal St., Brooklyn. 

William Perry .132 Lincoln Ave., Brooklyn. 

Edward Eichhorn .1219 Decatur St., Brooklyn. 

Edward L. Walker .127 Euclid Ave., Brooklyn. 

Stephen Mayo .440 Cleveland St., Brooklyn. 

Alexander J. McGreggor .1115 Decatur St., Brooklyn. 

Frank Ehlers .170 Arlington Ave., Brooklyn. 

George Wagner .187 Cornelia St., Brooklyn. 

John F. Bauer .295 Hemlock St., Brooklyn. 

Alternates. 

Fred Koetzle .68 Ridgewood Ave., Brooklyn. 

Mathew Sax .398 Hamburg Ave., Brooklyn. 

Thos. J. Clenaghan .19 Doscher Ave., Brooklyn. 

William Meyer .2265 Pitkin Ave., Brooklyn. 

Fred Bricka .1326 Jefferson Ave., Brooklyn. 

Louis Albrecht .271 Woodbine St., Brooklyn. 

Charles Brunnell .187 Palmetto St., Brooklyn. 

Joseph Boechner .438 Ashford St., Brooklyn. 

W. F. Lounsberry .124 Cooper St., Brooklyn. 

James A. Little .186 Georgia Ave., Brooklyn. 

Eli B. Conine, Jr.451 Schenck Ave., Brooklyn. 

TWENTY-THIRD ASSEMBLY DISTRICT. 

Delegates. 

Baruch Miller .411 Rockaway Ave., Brooklyn. 

George E. Odell .2056 Pacific St., Brooklyn. 

Jacob A. Freedman .84 Amboy St., Brooklyn. 

Samuel Y. Gitlin .1846 Park PI., Brooklyn. 

Frank Keller .284 McDougal St., Brooklyn. 

Arthur Werther .344 Hopkinson Ave., Brooklyn. 


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Alternates . 

Reuben L. Haskell .1216 Herkimer St., Brooklyn 

James Henderson .132 Hull St., Brooklyn. 

Machiore Livote .2415 Dean St., Brooklyn. 

David Rosenberg .412 Hopkinson Ave., Brookl 

Steven Goodloe .5 Olive PI., Brooklyn. 

Henry Muller .2022 Fulton St. 

LEWIS COUNTY. 

Delegates. 

Henry L. Grant.Copenhagen. 

Harry J. Henry.Copenhagen. 

C. Fred Boshart .Lowville. 

Harry W. Cox.Lyons Falls. 

Alternates. 

J. Edgar Jones.Turin. 

John A. Sears.Talcottville. 

Joseph F. Farney.Croghan. 

Roy Scanlon.Lake Bonaparte. 


LIVINGSTON COUNTY. 


Delegates. 

James W. Wadsworth, Jr.Mt. Morris. 

Charles D. Newton.Geneseo. 

Edward H. Maloney.Dansville. 

William E. Dana.Avon. 

Charles N. Stewart.York. 

Alternates. 

Otto Kelsey.Geneseo. 

Frank K. Cook.Geneseo. 

George F. Wheelock .Moscow. 

E. Walter Moses.Dalton. 

J. Cass Parker.Nunda. 

MADISON COUNTY. 

Delegates. 

M. E. Tallett .De Ruyter. 

Hugh Parker .Oneida. 

Dr. Lynn C. Beebe.Hamilton. 

Edward Kiley.Canastota. 

John H. Broad.Morrisville. 

Frank R. Lennox.Chittenango. 


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Alternates. 
E. E. Cummings 
Dr. C. M. Coe.. 

S. B. David. 

Robert Utter.... 
Robert L. Clark. 
O. P. Tooker.. . . 


Cazenovia. 

Madison. 

Lebanon. 

Georgetown. 

Munnsville. 

Oneida. 


MONROE COUNTY. 

FIRST ASSEMBLY DISTRICT. 


Delegates. 

William F. Durnan.... 

Charles C. Schoen. 

Frank A. Eckler. 

Herman C. Thiem. 

George M. Keller. 

Miller P. Allen. 

Herbert P. Ward. 

Alternates. 

James A. Harris. 

Louis J. Dubelbeiss... 

John S. Gray. 

Louis C. Starkweather 
James D. McCartney.. 
Wallace H. Bush. 


403 Carter St., Rochester. 
Pittsford. 

Honeoye Falls. 

1589 St. Paul St., Rochester. 
Brighton. 

Webster. 

Fairport. 

Penfield. 

Irondequoit. 

Rush. 

Henrietta. 

Fairport. 

101 Lux St., Rochester. 


SECOND ASSEMBLY DISTRICT. 

Delegates. 

Thomas B. Dunn.706 East Ave., Rochester. 

George W. Todd.1475 East Ave., Rochester. 

Simon L. Adler.17 Argyle St., Rochester. 

Frank J. Schwalb.104 Portland Ave., Rochester. 

John J. Appel.736 Clinton Ave., N., Rochester. 

George S. Taylor.311 Garson Ave., Rochester. 

James L. Hotchkiss.750 East Ave., Rochester. 

Alternates. 

Charles Lee Pierce.1771 St. Paul St., Rochester. 

Chris C. Yakey.797 Culver Rd., Rochester. 

Harry J. Bareham.88 Woodward St., Rochester. 

Frederick M. Whitney.12 Audubon St., Rochester. 

Walter W. Morrison.177 Culver Rd., Rochester. 

DeWitt M. Richards.1200 East Ave., Rochester. 

Joseph Bloch .Ill Merrimac St., Rochester. 


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THIRD ASSEMBLY DISTRICT. 

Delegates. 

David Jayne Hill. 

George F. Argetsinger 

Joseph Alderman . 

John F. Hickey. 

Sol Levin . 


Alternates. 

Fred L. Myers.83 Dartsmouth St., Rochester. 

John R. Powers.218 William St., Rochester. 

W. W. Robacher.251 Lyndhurst St., Rochester. 

Edward Wallis .80 Alexander St., Rochester. 

Howard F. Barnes.Ill Chestnut St., Rochester. 


Washington, D. C. 

683 Averill Ave., Rochester. 
165 Chatham St., Rochester. 
48 Alexander St., Rochester. 
199 Joseph Ave., Rochester. 


FOURTH ASSEMBLY DISTRICT. 

Delegates. 

George W. Aldridge.96 Plymouth Ave., S., Rochester. 

Robert Tait .561 Mt. Hope Ave., Rochester. 

John M. Lee.179 Lake Ave., Rochester. 

W. D. Horstman.Hotel Rochester, Rochester. 

Fred W. Zoller.1340 Lake Ave., Rochester. 

Pharcellus V. Crittenden.140 Plymouth Ave., S., Rochester. 

Charles S. Owen.Monroe Co. Jail, Rochester. 

William C. Kohlmetz .19 Grant St. 

Dennis Doud .81 Plymouth Ave., S., Rochester. 

James J. Fess.542 Lyell Ave., Rochester. 


Alternates. 

George H. Bliven.185 Laburnum Cres., Rochester. 

Frank Dobson.Charlotte. 

Bernard Haggarty .109 Troup St., Rochester. 

Fred A. Upton...Charlotte Sta., Rochester. 

Wesley Kingston .24 Jones Ave., Rochester. 

Patrick Cauley .61 Plymouth Ave., N., Rochester. 

Joseph H. Weis.1345 Lake Ave., Rochester. 

William Ward .275 Oak St., Rochester. 

Lewis D. Clements.87 Ave. C, Rochester. 

Willis A. Matson.23 Lake View Park, Rochester.* 


FIFTH ASSEMBLY DISTRICT. 

Delegates. 

Henry G. Danforth.200 West Ave., Rochester. 

Thomas C. Gordon.Brockport. 


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John B. Mullan.217 Wellington Ave., Rochester. 

George Johnson.Churchville. 

A. P. Beebe.R. F. D., Barnard. 

James E. Rice.56 7 Plymouth Ave., Rochester, 

John W. Clements.91 Jefferson Ave., Rochester. 

Myron W. Roberts.Hilton. 

A. J. Harradine.Spencerport. 

Alternates. 

Henry W. Morgan.Brockport. 

Franklin W. Judson.Gates. 

Frank Love.164 Silver St., Rochester. 

William T. Keyes.Scottsville. 

Fred Leverenze.Hamlin. 

Walter Wickens.Churchville. 

Harry C. Frey.45 Melrose St., Rochester. 

Horace J. Mann.Brockport. 


MONTGOMERY COUNTY. 

Delegates. 

Fox Sponable .Fort Plain. 

Willis Wendell .Amsterdam. 

John E. Brown...Amsterdam. 

Thos. F. Kennedy.Amsterdam. 

Charles Scott .Fort Plain. 

Edward S. Smith.*.___ Canajoharie. 

Howard Vosburgh.Canajoharie. 


Alternates. 

Charles Failing. 

Charles H. Warring 

W. B. Dunlap. 

Lauren Kellogg .. . 
Leonard B. Moore., 

Bartlett Arkell. 

J. Ledlie Hees. 


Palatine Bridge. 
Amsterdam. 

Amsterdam. 

Amsterdam. 

Fort Plain. 

95 Broad St., N. Y. City. 
42nd St., Bldg., N. Y. City. 


NASSAU COUNTY. 


Delegates. 

Smith Cox .Freeport. 

George W. Doughty.Inwood. 

Jeremiah Wood .Lynbrook. 

Thos. A. McWhinney.Lawrence. 

Franklin B. Lord.Cedarhurst. 


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Wm. D. Guthrie.Locust Valley. 

Middleton Burrill .Jericho. 

Wm. E. Luyster.Glen Cove. 

Charles F. Lewis.Port Washington. 

R. E. Allen.Great Neck. 

Alternates. 

J. H. Clement.Hempstead. 

O. H. Tuthill.Rockville Center. 

A. H. Goldsmith.Floral Park. 

Peter T. Herman.Floral Park. 

Fred Howell .Glen Cove. 

Frank Tappen ..Jericho. 

John F. Jones.Massapequa. 

B. C. Gould.Port Washington. 

L. D. Howell.Mineola. 

Frank Hamill.Valley Stream. 

NEW YORK COUNTY. 

FIRST ASSEMBLY DISTRICT. 

Rocco Dalessandro .8 Vandam St., N. Y. City. 

Frank Popino .13 Bedford St., N. Y. City. 

Alternates. 

George B. Jolliffe.97 Charlton St., N. Y. City. 

Joseph Delvin.294 West Houston St., N. Y. C. 

SECOND ASSEMBLY DISTRICT. 

Joseph Levenson..148 Henry St., N. Y. City. 

Lester M. Friedman.220 Henry St., N. Y. City. 

Alternates. 

John J. Barry.9 Peck Slip, N. Y. City. 

Andrew Ferragarri.38 New Bowery, N. Y. City. 

THIRD ASSEMBLY DISTRICT. 

Delegates. 

James E. March Sr.235 Lafayette St., N. Y. City. 

James E. March, Jr..., .235 Lafayette St., N. Y. City. 

Alternates. 

Thomas McNulty.13 E. 7th St., New York City. 

A. A. Lustig.210 2nd St., New York City. 

FOURTH ASSEMBLY DISTRICT. 

Delegates. 

Alexander Wolf .132 Broome St., New York City. 

Harry G. Fromberg.288 E. Broadway, New York City. 

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Alternates. 

Emanuel Dollinger .173 Rivington St., New York City. 

Louis Zeltner .293 Henry St., New York City. 


FIFTH ASSEMBLY DISTRICT. 

Delegates. 

Henry C. Parke.110 Christopher St., N. Y. City. 

George W. Wickersham.40 Wall St., New York City. 

Alternates. 

George W. Sheppard.234 W. 15th St., New York City. 

Fred M. C. Opitz.72 7th Ave., New York City. 


SIXTH ASSEMBLY DISTRICT. 

Delegates. 

Samuel S. Koenig.237 7th St., New York City. * 

Nathan D. Perlman.314 E. 4th St., New York City. 

Harry A Goidel.324 E. 4th St., New York City. 

Louis J. Schwartz.309 E. 4th St., New York City. 

Alternates. 

Max Ehrlich .255 East 4th St., New York City. 

Isaac Feuer .208 Stanton St., New York City. 

Isidore Dominits .748 6th St., New York City. 

Morris Streusand. v ...619 5th St., New York City. 

SEVENTH ASSEMBLY DISTRICT. 

Delegates. 

Benjamin F. Fox.402 W. 29th St., New York City. 

Oscar W. Ehrhorn.444 W. 24th St., New York City. 

William L. Turner.402 W. 29th St., New York City. 

Alternates. 

William Armstrong .341 W. 28th St., New York City. 

John Glass.302 W. 22nd St., New York City. 

William N. P. Reed .419 W. 22nd St., New York City. 


EIGHTH ASSEMBLY DISTRICT. 


Delegates. 

Louis Jacobson ..121 Canal St, New York City. 

Michael Ball .Care of Board of Election, Munici¬ 

pal Bldg., New York City. 

Joshua Shapiro .130 Delancey St., New York City. 

Alternates. 

Jacob Berman.362 Grand St., New York City. 

Herman Engel.366 Grand St., New York City. 

Jacob Kugel.75 Orchard St., New York City. 


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NINTH ASSEMBLY DISTRICT. 

Delegates. 

Michael H. Blake.440 W. 43rd St, New York City. 

William Haywood .154 Nassau St, New York City. 

Alternates. 

David Morton .202 W. 31st St, New York City. 

Christie Nikel .535 W. 40th St, New York City. 

TENTH ASSEMBLY DISTRICT. 

Delegates. 

Jacob Samuel .316 5th St, New York City. 

Frederick L. Marshall.162 2nd St, New York City. 

Herman L. Schrader.439 E. 9th St, New York City. 

Alternates. 

Frank Dostal .42 Ave. B, New York City. 

Herman Weiss .76 St. Mark's PI, New York City. 

Abram Safir .329 6th St, New York City. 

ELEVENTH ASSEMBLY DISTRICT. 

Delegates. 

Herman W. Beyer.465 W. 47th St, New York City. 

William J. Rogers.436 W. 47th St, New York City. 

Murty G. Brennan.531 W. 43rd St, New York City. 

Alternates. 

William S. Reynolds. * .348 W. 48th St, New York City. 

Peter Pleines .690 10th Ave, New York City. 

Arthur F. Comrie .509 W. 47th St, New York City. 

TWELFTH ASSEMBLY DISTRICT 

Delegates. 

William Henkel .339 E. 18th St, New York City. 

Henry L. Stimson.,32 Liberty St, N. Y. City. 

Alternates. 

Frank McGowan .244 E. 20th St, New York City. 

Henry Bossert .500 E. 18th St, New York City. 

THIRTEENTH ASSEMBLY DISTRICT 
Delegates. 

John W. Noble.327 W. 56th St, New York City. 

Gilchrist Stewart.217 W. 63rd St, New York City. 

Alternates. 

William Hahn.154 W. 63rd St, New York City. 

Tohn J. Hayden.426 W. 56th St, New York City. 


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FOURTEENTH ASSEMBLY DISTRICT 
Delegates. 

John S. Shea.157 E. 31st St., New York City. 

Philip McDonnell .321 E. 32nd St., New York City. 

Edward Doonan .313 E. 37th St., New York City. 

Alternates. 

James Callahan .212 E. 34th St., New York City. 

Daniel D. Thompson.331 E. 31st St., New York City. 

Jeremiah P. Donohue.143 E. 29th St., New York City. 

FIFTEENTH ASSEMBLY DISTRICT 

Delegates. 

Albert J. Berwin.150 W. 87th St., New York City. 

Robert W. Bonynge.....Hotel Bretton Hall, N. Y. City. 

Abram Ellenbogen .350 W. 86th St., New York City. 

Leo Honigman .204 W. 86th St., New York City. 

Martin Saxe .337 W. 77th St., New York City. 

John P. Windolph.328 W. 88th St., New York City. 

Alternates. 

Niles R. Becker.345 W. 70th St, New York City. 

Charles Coleman .250 W. 70th St, New York City. 

George B. Francis.1 W. 81st St, New York City. 

George Kenneth .315 W. 85th St, New York City. 

Abraham Landau .346 Broadway, New York City. 

Albert Ottinger .23 W. 75th St, New York City. 

SIXTEENTH ASSEMBLY DISTRICT 

Delegates. 

Charles K. Lexow.515 Lexington Ave, N. Y. City. 

Martin Steinthal .515 Lexington Ave, N. Y. City. 

Frederick Scheid .797 1st Ave, New York City. 

Alternates. 

John P. Gallagher.342 E. 51st St, New York City. 

Leopold Fuld .......324 E. 50th St, New York City. 

Lewis M. White...327 E. 49th St, New York City. 

SEVENTEENTH ASSEMBLY DISTRICT 
Delegates. 

Charles E. Heydt.640 West End Ave, N. Y. City. 

John F. Yawger...808 West End Ave, N. Y. City. 

William M. K. Olcott.58 W. 84th St, New York City. 

Martin 'Bourke .4 W. 92nd St, New York City. 

Frederick R. Toombs.78 W. 85th St, New York City. 

Emil E. Fuchs.1 Liberty St, New York City. 


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Alternates. 

J. Robert Rubin.317 W. 99th St., New York City. 

Edward Carey Cohen...317 W. 100th St., New York City. 

Edward R. Ray her.150 W. 95th St, New York City. 

Edward M. Mclnnes...66 W. 104th St., New York City. 

Alexander Tausky .418 Central Park, W., N. Y. City. 

Joseph F. Cook.767 Amsterdam Ave., N. Y. City. 

EIGHTEENTH ASSEMBLY DISTRICT 
Delegates. 

Joseph E. Nejedly 

Philip Hofer . 

Frank Belsky .... 

Alternates. 

Thomas Mallee ....402 E. 65th St., New York City. 

Nathan Sussman .1394 2nd Ave., New York City. 

Jerome C. Carlebach.226 E. 71st St., New York City. 

NINETEENTH ASSEMBLY DISTRICT 
Delegates. 

Nicholas Murray Butler 

Charles D. Hilles. 

William D. Brush. 

Alexander Brough . 

Chas. H. Griffiths. 

Samuel Strasbourger .. 

Perley Morse . 


501 W. 113th St., New York City. 

561 W. 132nd St, New York City. 

160 Clermont Ave., N. Y. City. 

521 W. 123rd St., New York City. 

302 W. 112th St., New York City. 

249 W. 104th St., New York City. 

240 W. 116th St., New York City. 

TWENTIETH ASSEMBLY DISTRICT 

Delegates. 

William C. Hecht 
Bernard Colle .. . 

Julius Hallheimer 


169 E. 83rd St, New York City. 
171 E. 83rd St., New York City. 
216 E. 83rd St, New York City. 


Alternates. 

Frederick H. Whitin. 

Thomas L Ryan. 

James J. Sullivan. 

W. Irving Turner.... 
James J. Flanagan... 
Joseph H. Adams.... 
Charles W. Nahrwold 


60 Morningside Dr., N. Y. City. 
301 W. 106th St., New York City. 
415 W. 118th St, New York City. 
Hotel Marseilles, New York City. 
160 Clermont Ave., N. Y. City. 

74 Broadway, New York City. 

331 W. 101st St., New York City. 


230 E. 71st St., New York City. 
1179 3rd Ave., New York City. 

34 Sutton PI., New York City. 


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Alternates. 


Arthur Jones .1506 2nd Ave., New York City. 

Frank J. Ryan.169 E. 83rd St., New York City. 

Mark M. Levy.333 E. 79th St., New York City. 


TWENTY-FIRST ASSEMBLY DISTRICT 


Delegates. 

Moses M. McKee.275 W. 140th St., New York City. 

John T. McNeill.2394 7th Ave., New York City. 

Robert S. Conklin.610 Riverside Dr., N. Y. City. 

Harold C. Mitchell.321 St. Nicholas Ave., N. Y. City. 

Oscar Igstaedter .2412 7th Ave., New York City. 

James A. H. Sealy...301 W. 139th St., New York City. 

Alternates. 

Hugo Levy .601 W. 140th St., New York City. 

Isaac Fuld .419 W. 129th St., New York City. 

Carroll H. Brester..634 W. 135th St., New York City. 

Robert V. Mahon.229 W. 138th St., New York City. 

William O. Payne..141 W. 136th St., New York City. 

M. P. B. Voullaire.270 W. 129th St., New York City. 


TWENTY-SECOND ASSEMBLY DISTRICT 


Delegates. 

Isidor Wasservogel .244 E. 86th St., New York City. 

Henry Ottes .327 E. 83rd St., New York City. 

Edward Koehler ....414 E. 88th St., New York City. 

Alternates. 

Paul Wenzel .217 E. 84th St., New York City. 

M. J. Sherry.188 East End Ave., N. Y. City. 

Joseph Gussfield .338 E. 87th St., New York City. 


TWENTY-THIRD ASSEMBLY DISTRICT 


Delegates. 

Collin H. Woodward.500 W. 177th St., New York City. 

William S. Bennet.415 Ft. Washington Ave., N. Y. C. 

J. W. Adams.100 Haven Ave., N. Y. City. 

John A. Bolles.135 Hamilton PL, New York City. 

William J. Campbell.543 W. 141st St., New York City. 

Sidney C. Crane..825 W. 180th St., New York City. 

Ernest F. Eilert.608 W. 146th St., New York City. 

Emanuel Hertz .400 W. 150th St., New York City. 

John A. Huston.323 Edgecombe Ave., N. Y. City. 

Stanley L. Otis.161 W. 140th St., New York City. 

Nicholas H. Pinto.210 W. 142nd St., New York City. 

Rufus P. Johnston.417 Convent Ave., New York City. 


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Alternates. 

Clifford S. Bostwick.3690 Broadway, New York City. 

Lewis H. Berg.Ill W. 143rd St., New York City. 

Abraham Bernstein .271 W. 144th St., New York City. 

Richard A. Berrien.152 Sherman Ave., New York City. 

Charles F. Bishop.601 W. 148th St., New York City. 

Chapman Bush .103 W. 138th St., New York City. 

Jack W. Friedman.547 W. 157th St., New York City. 

George B. Gillie.501 W. 182nd St., New York City. 

Percy F. Griffin.365 Edgecombe Ave., N. Y. City. 

M. H. Petigor.720 Riverside Dr., New York City. 

Jerome J. Steinfelder, Jr.136 W. 142nd St., New York City. 

Samuel Symons.535 W. 187th St., New York City. 

TWENTY-FOURTH ASSEMBLY DISTRICT. 

Delegates. 

Morris Levy .171 E. 105th St., New York City. 

Benjamin Swartz .169 E. 105th St., New York City. 

Alternates. 

Emanuel S. Berge.109 E. 104th St., New York City. 

Samuel C. Shim.172 E. 104th St., New York City. 

TWENTY-FIFTH ASSEMBLY DISTRICT. 

Delegates. 

Frederick C. Tanner.12 Gramercy Park, N. Y. City. 

Ezra P Prentice.27 Waverly PI., New York City. 

Robert McC. Marsh .45 W. 11th St., New York City. 

Clarence H. Fay.15 E. 10th St., New York City. 

Alternates. 

Henry H. Curran.31 W. 11th St., New York City. 

Francis R. Stoddard, Jr.6 Washington Sq., W., N. Y. City. 

James A. Hatch.101 Waverly PI., N. Y. City. 

Harry G. Andrews.209 W. 11th St., New York City. 

TWENTY-SIXTH ASSEMBLY DISTRICT. 

Delegates. 

Samuel Krulewitch .1265 Fifth Ave., N. Y. City. 

Jacob R. Schiff.18-20 E. 120th St., N. Y. City. 

Isaac Gutman . 1583 Madison Ave., N. Y. City. 

Alternates. 

Abram Cohen .1825 Madison Ave., N. Y. City. 

Michael Kaufman .64 E. 108th St., New York City. 

Noah Stone .1477 Madison Ave., N. Y. City. 


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TWENTY-SEVENTH ASSEMBLY DISTRICT. 

Delegates. 

Job E. Hedges.55 W. 32nd St., New York City. 

Beverley R. Robinson.42 W. 37th St., New York City. 

Thomas Guilfoyle .161 W. 36th St., New York City. 

Schuyler M. Meyer. ( .40 E. 51st St., New York City. 

Alternates. 

Benjamin Bulmer .244 W. 56th St., New York City. 

Otto Grecke .616 Lexington Ave., N. Y. City. 

Irving H. Blum.626 8th Ave., New York City. 

Frank A. Moffitt.106 W. 44th St., New York City. 

TWENTY-EIGHTH ASSEMBLY DISTRICT. 

Delegates. 

Charles Wines .1836 Lexington Ave., N. Y. City. 

Charles Novello .179 E. 107th St., N. Y. City. 

Frank Birnbaum .2029 3rd Ave., New York City. 

Alternates. 

Elias Galland .152 E. 113th St., New York City. 

Joseph Bonfiglio .1833 Lexington Ave.; N. Y. City. 

Benjamin Bernstein .139 E. 110th St., New York City. 

TWENTY-NINTH ASSEMBLY DISTRICT. 

Delegates. 

Thomas F. Gleason.776 Lexington Ave., N. Y. City. 

Ogden L. Mills.9 E. 84th St., New York City. 

Herbert Parsons .115 E. 72nd St., New York City. 

William Chilvers .57 E. 86th St., New York City. 

William W. Hoppin.19 E. 65th St., New York City. 

Alternates. 

Alfred D. Bell.54 E. 77th St., New York City. 

Mark W. Maclay, Jr.830 Park Ave., New York City. 

Frank Bulkley .71 E. 92nd St., New York City. 

Joseph P. Purcell.66 E. 94th St., New York City. 

Mark Taubert .58 E. 94th St., New York City. 

THIRTIETH ASSEMBLY DISTRICT. 

Delegates. 

Frank K. Borers.63 E. 128th St., New York City. 

George Z. Medalie.51 E. 129th St., New York City. 

William Duggan.245 E. 124th St., New, York City. 

Hyman Pouker .?-73 E. 128th St., New York City. 

Samuel T. Cool.455 E. 135th St., New York City. 


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Alternates. 

Nathan Eckstein .60 E. 122nd St,. New York City. 

Michael J. McEnany.2004 Lexington Ave., N. Y. City. 

Charles H. Haug.109 E. 123rd St., New York City. 

George W. Palmer .315 E. 133rd St., New York City. 

Julius W. Watson.40 W. 136th St., New York City. 


THIRTY-FIRST ASSEMBLY DISTRICT. 


Delegates. 

Frank Moss .23 E. 127th St., New York City. 

Israel L. Feinberg.104 W. 119th St., New York City. 

Edward S. Clinch.200 Lenox Ave., New York City. 

Daniel Greenwald .203 W. 117th St., 3, N. Y. City. 

Marcus M. Marks.4 E. 94th St., New York City. 

James P. Degnan.136 W. 116th St., New York City. 

Alternates. 

Felix Prince .200 Lenox Ave., N. Y. City. 

Max Lazarus .47 St. Nicholas Ave., N. Y. City. 

Charles Cogut .35 W. 115th St., New York City. 

Archie Fine .105 W. 120th St., New York City. 

Morris Einstein .106 W. 113th St., New York City. 

Clarence Corney .203 W. 122nd St., New York City. 


NIAGARA COUNTY. 


FIRST ASSEMBLY DISTRICT. 


Delegates. 


George F. Thompson. 

S. Wallace Dempsey. 

William Bewley . 

Frank M. Bredell. 

John T. Schmidt. 

Frank Wilson . 

Charles A. Smith. 


Alternates. 


Walter B. Ellis. 

George C. Lewis. 

Lawrence J. Hooker. 

Burt A. Duquette. 

Willis A. Freer. 

Antony W. Brick. 

.N. Tonawanda. 


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SECOND ASSEMBLY DISTRICT. 

Delegates. 

Paul A. Scheollkopf.Niagara Falls. 

Alexander J. Porter.Niagara Falls. 

Allan V. Parker.Niagara Falls. 

Fred W. Pike.Middleport. 

William Shaw .. Lockport. 

Emmet E. Clancy.Niagara Falls. 

Alternates. 

Orvill C. Butler.Niagara Falls. 

George M. Tuttle.Niagara Falls. 

George W. Gill.Gasport. 

Francis H. Salt.Niagara Falls. 

Albert L. Pearce.Sanborn. 

Elgin G. Hubble.Ransomville. 

ONEIDA COUNTY. 

r ' FIRST ASSEMBLY DISTRICT. 

Delegates. 

W. S. Doolittle.Utica. 

William E. Lewis.Utica. 

J. S. Kubu.Utica. 

J. J. Cardamone.Utica. 

John C. Dillon.Utica. 

Alternates. 

Russel Brennan .Utica. 

O. L. Hall.Utica. 

E. D. Wheeler.Utica. 

Rocco Perretta .Utica. 

William E. Sliter.Utica. 

SECOND ASSEMBLY DISTRICT. 

L. M. Martin.Clinton. 

Dr. R. B. Wilson..Augusta. 

Andrew Young .N. Y. Mills, Oneida Co. 

Wm. Whanam .Whitestown. 

F. William Bensberg.Utica. 

Ward B. Edwards.Utica. 

Richard R. Martin.Utica. 

Alternates. 

A. G. Gypson.Westmoreland. 

Press Risinger .New Hartford. 


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H. C. York.Sangerfield. 

J. C. Bates.Vernon. 

Dr. G. M. Fisher.Clayville. 

Herman A. White.Verona. 

David A. Pierce.Utica. 


THIRD ASSEMBLY DISTRICT. 


Delegates. 

Garry A. Willard.. 
James A. Spargo.. 
Silas F. Potter.... 
Stuart Townsend . 
M. W. Van Auken 
W. L. Kingsley... 

Alternates. 

G. Lynn Prescott- 

John Dillon . 

Samp Kaplar . 

Charles Owens ... 
Dan R. Thomas.. . 
Willard Backer .. . 


Boonville. 

Rome. 

Vienna. 

Rome. 

Utica. 

Rome. 


Rome. 

Florence. 

Lee Center. 

Holland Patent, R. F. D. 
Stittville, R. F. D. 

Ava. 


ONONDAGA COUNTY. 

FIRST ASSEMBLY DISTRICT. 

Delegates. 

James F. Mathews. 

Matthew J. Frawley 

Cecil J. Crego. 

J. Henry Walters.. 

Isaac C. Davis. 

William Rubin .... 

George Young .... 

Edward Schoeneck 

Alternates. 

J. Brewster Gere.128 E. Fayette St., Syracuse. 

Edward S. Darling.Camillus. 

Charles S. Kellar.Baldwinsville. 

John E. Heywood.Skaneateles. 

Elmer Van Benthuysen.Onondaga. 

Barton C. Meays.Baldwinsville. 

John C. McLaughlin.Elbridge. 

Frank T. Miller.Third Nat. Bank Bldg., Syracuse. 


103 Bridge Ave., Solvay. 
Baldwinsville. 

115 S. Salina St., Syracuse. 

935 University Blk., Syracuse. 
1802 W. Fayette St., Syracuse. 
505 Union Bldg., Syracuse. 

503 N. Salina St., Syracuse. 

431 Union Bldg., Syracuse. 


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PROCEEDINGS OF THE 


SECOND ASSEMBLY DISTRICT. 


Fred W. Hammond.417 Bastable Blk., Syracuse. 

Willard A. Rill.631 University Blk., Syracuse. 

J. Leslie Kincaid.530 On. Co. Savings Bank Bldg., 

Syracuse. 

George A. Glynn.213 E. Kennedy St., Syracuse. 

Leroy B. Williams.21 Syr. Savings Bank Bldg., Syra¬ 

cuse. 

Jesse G. Williams..144 West Castle St., Syracuse. 

William S. McMahon.359 Whittier Ave., Syracuse. 

Harry C. Ostrander.3524 S. Salina St., Syracuse. 

Alternates. 

Albert J. Kelsey.Court House, Syracuse. 

Frank M. Westcott.Court House, Syracuse. 

John M. Luther.116 S. Chester St., Syracuse. 

Joseph M. Meatyard.20 White Memo’l Bldg., Syracuse. 

Dennis Dwyer .617 Marcellus St., Syracuse. 

Mark E. Conan.City Hall, Syracuse. 

James G. Barnard.Fabius. , 

Albert A. Kempter.1433 Midland Ave., Syracuse. 


THIRD ASSEMBLY DISTRICT. 


Delegates. 

Dr. Leonard A. Saxer... 
Augustus T. Armstrong 

George N. Crouse. 

Henry C. Reimers. 

Horace White . 

D. Raymond Cobb. 

J. Dan Ackerman, Jr... 
Richard J. Shanahan... 

Alternates. 

John C. Boland. 

George R. Fearon. 

John P. Schlosser. 

Stephen C. Cheney. 

Edward H. Foley. 

Martin A. Maxwell...., 

Allan C. Fobes. 

Geo. H. Bond.. 


423 James St., Syracuse. 

304 S. A. & K. Bldg., Syracuse. 
218 W. Water, Syracuse. 

306 Highland Ave., Syracuse. 

16 White Memo’l Bldg., Syracuse. 
City Hall, Syracuse. 

605 McBride St., Syracuse. 

614 S. A. & K. Bldg., Syracuse. 


1041 O. C. S. B. Bldg., Syracuse. 
614 Gurney Bldg., Syracuse. 

602 N. State St., Syracuse. 
Manlius. 

Jamesville. 

Delphi Falls. 

204 Gurney Bldg., Syracuse. 

431 Union Bldg., Syracuse. 


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Delegates. 

Thomas B. Wilson. 
Heber E. Wheeler. 
John Parmenter ... 
Charles C. Sackett. 

Lee H. Leland. 

Levi A. Page. 

William B. Osborne 
Alternates. 

John C. Bolies..... 
Augustine Sackett . 

R. H. Culvin. 

Morris Hocroft .... 

W A. Howe. 

A. B. Gilbert. 

Edmund W. Smith. 


ONTARIO COUNTY. 

.Hall. 

.East Bloomfield. 

.Geneva. 

.Canandaigua. 

.Clifton Springs. 

.Seneca Castle. 

.Victor. 

.Naples. 

.Canandaigua. 

.Geneva. 

.Gorham. 

.Phelps. 

.Honoye. 

.Clifton Springs. 


ORANGE COUNTY. 

FIRST ASSEMBLY DISTRICT. 

Delegates. 

John B. Rose.Roseton. 

John B. Corwin.Newburgh. 

Graham Witschief .Newburgh. 

Frederick W. Wilson.Newburgh. 

W. L. Snider.Newburgh. 

Fred Booth .Cornwall. N. Y. 


Alternates. 

J. D. Wilson.Newburgh. 

Joseph C. Gerow.Blooming Grove. 

T. James Hastings.Newburgh. 

Samuel G. Lent.Oxford Depot. 

James D. McGiffert.Newburgh. 

Fred S. McDowell .Cornwall. 


SECOND ASSEMBLY DISTRICT. 


Delegates. 

George F. Gregg.Goshen. 

John E. DuBois.Westtown. 

Jacob F. Pobe.Port Jervis. 

Fred R. Salmon.Port Jervis. 

Henry Hallock, Jr.Newburgh. 

Louis C. Wilson.Middletown. 


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PROCEEDINGS OF THF 


Port Jervis. 
Middletown. 
Greenwood Lake. 
Tuxedo. 
Middletown. 

Port Jervis. 

ORLEANS COUNTY. 

Delegates. 


Irving L’Hommedieu 


Ernest S. Breed. 


C. Royce Sawyer.... 


A. A. Comstock. 


James Balcolm . 


Alternates. 

Fred Flagg . 


Dr. John Liddle. 


Enos Rice . 


Henry J. Palmer. 


George Bridgman ... 

.Holley, R. F. D. 

OSWEGO COUNTY. 

Delegates. 

Thaddeus C. Sweet... 


Luther W. Mott. 


P. W. Cullinan. 


Peter G. Hydorn. 


M. A. Stranahan. 


Nathan B. Smith. 


Henry D. Colville.... 


Fred M. Bishop. 


John W. Stevenson.. 


Alternates. 

H. Putnam Allen. 


William Knowlton .. . 


W. B. Harter. 


Edwin L. Sheetz. 


James M. Snow. 


Charles H. Nichols... 


John Wilson . 

.Redfield. 

Clayton Winn . 


Loren J. Parsons.... 



Alternates. 
Alex. T. Brown... 

H. L. Crist. 

William G. Batz.. . 
Gilmore O. Bush. 
Albert C. Eckert.. 
George J. Hubbard 


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OTSEGO COUNTY. 

Delegates. 

George W. Fairchild.Oneonta. 

Allen J. Bloomfield.Richfield Springs. 

W. L. Morris.Milford. 

George W. Weatherspoon.Cooperstown. 

Albert A. Lull.Edmeston. 

Alternates. 

L. M. Cowles.Unadilla. 

H. G. Brown.Otsego. 

Louis Dante .East Worcester. 

G. Milton Augur..Hartwick. 

Robert L. Holbrook.Schuyler Lake. 

PUTNAM COUNTY. 

.Brewster. 

.Towners. 

.Mahopac. 

.Patterson. 

QUEENS COUNTY. 

FIRST ASSEMBLY DISTRICT. 

Delegates. 

Thomas F. Doyle . 

John A. Porter . 

John Wagner . 

William Brengel . 

Thomas Martin . 

Alternates. 

James Gordon . . 

George Hipp . 

Joseph Costa .>. 

Emil Peterson .. 

Peter P. Campbell . 

SECOND ASSEMBLY DISTRICT. 


Delegates. 

Herbert Conklin ..119 45th St., Corona. 

F. C. Zimmerley .141 Washington St., Flushing. 

Vincent Kenna .Woodside. 

A. C. Buckmaster .18 Edson St., Corona. 


Delegates. 
John R. Yale.... 
James E. Towner 
Alternates. 
Emerson Clark .. 
Chas. W. Penny. 


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Alternates. 

Frank Tafuri . 152 43rd St., Corona 

F. L. Schnorr .68 50th St., Corona. 

L. Lichter .24 Tulip St., Corona. 

Geo. F. Dejongh .21 Way Ave., Corona. 

THIRD ASSEMBLY DISTRICT. 

Delegates. 

Walter B. Stanley . 

Charles Hahn . 

George F. Vreeland. 

Frederick E. Knauss .*,.... 

Maurice Garlick. 

Charles F. Connolly . 

Ferd M. Becker . 

Robert Wilson . 

Alternates. 

Frank King, Jr. 

William Bader . 

T. C. McKennee . 

William F. Rolle . 

Bernard Kuhn . 

John Inglis . 

Edward Prahl . 

Henry C. Steiner . 


FOURTH ASSEMBLY DISTRICT. 

Delegates. 

William H. Wade . 

Francis P. Wilsnack . 

Anthony Moors . 

Frank H. Woodruff . 

Leonard A. Barthel . 

William W. Walling . 

Frank E. Hulbert . 

Edwin Rees . 

Alternates. 

Louis Repperger . 

Robert W. Sutton .. 

Frank E. Phillips . 

Elmer E. Bergen . 

James S. Eadie. 

George H. Sweeney. 


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Charles E. Husson 
George G. Goetz . 
Alfred G. Ivers ... 


RENSSELAER COUNTY. 

FIRST ASSEMBLY DISTRICT. 


Delegates. 

George B. Wellington .Troy. 

James J. Childs .Troy. 

Elias P. Mann .Troy. 

Alba M. Ide .Troy. 

Hans Dahl .Troy. 

John Doyle .Troy. 

John H. Manss .Troy. 

G. Alfred Cluett .Troy. 

Alternates. 

James Upham .Troy. 

Julius Pfau .Troy. 

Charles A. Evans .Troy. 

P. R. Chapman .Troy. 

Hiram Morse .Troy. 

Eugene Bryan .Troy. 

William T. Williamson .Troy. 

Herbert F. Roy .Troy. 


SECOND ASSEMBLY DISTRICT 


Delegates. 

Harry A. Lewis . 


Arthur Cowee . 


Matthew A. Heeran . 


George E. Cross . 

.Castleton. 

C. V. Collins . 

.Troy. 

F. L. Stevens . 


Alex M. Diver. 


Alternates. 

Ira W. Abbott. 


Dr. M. A. Wheeler . 


Silas Downs, Jr. 


James Van Buren . 


Garrett Ives, Jr. 


Delmar Lynd . 


Laurence Laperle . 

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RICHMOND COUNTY. 


Delegates. 

George S. Scofield 
George L. Nichol 
George Cromwell 
Horace E. Buel .. 

John Timlin, Jr. . 

E. J. Lovett . 

Alternates. 

Russell Bleecker .New Brighton. 

John C. Smith .Stapleton. 

W. W. Whitford .Port Richmond. 

W. H. Schubert .Rosebank. 

A. E. Johnson .Tottenville. 

Frank Foggin .Port Richmond. 


63 Belair Rd., Rosebank. 
Cherry Lane, W. Brighton 
Dongan Hills. 

Port Richmond, S. I. 
Rosebank, S. I. 

Tottenville. 


ROCKLAND COUNTY. 


Delegates. 

Robert L. Smith .Central Nyack. 

Gordon H. Peck .West Haverstraw. 

Wm. A. Serven .Pearl River. 

James J. Brown .Suffern. 

Walter G. Hamilton .Stony Point. 

Alternates. 

Isaac C. Weyant 
N. Leslie Bedle 
Chas. Smith .... 

George B. Arnot 
Hudson Hurd .. 

ST. LAWRENCE COUNTY. 
FIRST ASSEMBLY DISTRICT. 


New City. 

Haverstraw. 

Tappan. 

Spring Valley. 
Stony Point. 


Delegates. 

Frank L. Seaker .Gouverneur. 

William A. Laidlaw .Hammond. 

Valorus A. Wallace .Lisbon. 

Jos. E. Fell .Ogdensburgh. 

George A. Van Delinder .DeKalb Junction. 

Jerry C. Finch .Gouverneur. 

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Alternates. 

Perle A. Graves . 


Claude L. Preston . 


George A. Mason . 


Bert S. Crapser . 


F. Packard Palmer . 


James H. Witherell . 


SECOND 

ASSEMBLY DISTRICT. 

Delegates. 

Edward A. Everett . 


Royal Newton . 


Ceylon G. Chaney . 


G. W. Ball . 


W. W. Haile . 


Frank L. Cubley. 


Alternates. 

Lawrence L. Grow . 


Emory P. Gale . 


G. W. Lewis . 


J. B. Andrews . 


J. Fred Hammond . 


Fred L. Dewey . 



SARATOGA COUNTY. 

Delegates. 

George H. Whitney .Mechanicville. 

John K. Walbridge .Saratoga Springs. 

George R. Salisbury ..Saratoga Springs. 

Nash Rockwood .Saratoga Springs. 

Gilbert F. Seelye .Burnt Hills. 

Lawrence B. McKelvey .Saratoga Springs. 

Fred W. Kavanaugh .Waterford. 

Elmor J. Caldwell .Clifton Park. 


Alternates. 

William T. Moore .. 
William K. Mansfield 
Burton Esmond .... 
George Slingerland . 
George H. Van Wie 

Fred Rubeck . 

George H. Lomar .. 
Jay Smead . 


Mechanicville. 

Waterford. 

Ballston Spa. 
Mechanicville. 

Bemis Heights. 

Galway. 

Schuylerville, R. F. D. 
Hadley. 


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SCHENECTADY COUNTY. 

Delegates. 

W. Seward Hamlin ... Cranesville, R. D. No. 1. 

Walter S. McNab .514 State St., Schenectady. 

Bernard R. Carey .1354 Union St., Schenectady. 

William E. Walker .1104 Union St., Schenectady. 

Horace S. Van Voast .1401 Union St., Schenectady. 

James F. Hooker .Avon Rd., Schenectady. 

Clarence F. Shanks .497 Chrisler Ave., Schenectady. 

Thos. W. Winnie .Niskayuna. 

Alternates. 

William Fowler, Sr.309 Parkwood Blvd., Schenectady. 

William F. O. Loughlin.5 Foster Ave., Schenectady. 

Eugene Reese .708 South Ave., Schenectady. 

Grant R. Dent .632 Chapel St., Schenectady. 

John R. Parker .12 Lowell Rd., Schenectady. 

William H. Bradt .7 South Church St., Schenectady. 

A. T. Snyder .915 Stanley St., Schenectady. 

Frederick Hoistman .22 Schonowe Ave., Scotia. 

SCHOHARIE COUNTY. 

Delegates. 

Charles E. Nichols .Jefferson. 

Arden L. Norton .Cableskill. 

George A. Hill . Middleburgh. 

Alternates. 

David Boynton . 

Harry Nelson . 

Charles H. Wadsworth . 

SCHUYLER COUNTY. 

Delegates. 

H. H. Graham .Watkins. 

George Stevens .Beaver Dam. 

Alternates. 

D. D. Wakeman .Trumansburgh. 

William Walkham .Hector. 

SENECA COUNTY. 

Delegates. 

George A. Dobson .Seneca Falls. 

A. M. Patterson .Waterloo. 

W. L. Sweet .Waterloo. 

Francis C. Allen .Ovid. 


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Alternates. 
John B. Mulford 
Don P. Blaine .. 
W. S. Metcalf .. 
S. P. Kuhns .... 


Lodi. 

Romulus. 

Seneca Falls. 
Waterloo, R, F. 


STEUBEN COUNTY. 


FIRST ASSEMBLY DISTRICT. 

Delegates. 

John S. Kennedy .Corning. 

Thomas P. O’Bryan .Corning. 

Reuben Oldfield .Bath. 

Gordon G. Hoyt .Hammondsport. 


Alternates. 

John L. Chatfield .Painted Post. 

George Straubinger .Corning. 

Burrell Vastbinder .Addison. 

Robert Turnbull .Campbell. 


SECOND ASSEMBLY DISTRICT. 


Delegates. 

Jesse Phillips .Hornell. 

Richard M. Prangen .Hornell. 

Gorden Patchin .Wayland. 

Alternates. 

W. S. Meeks .Canisteo. 

John E. Olmsted .Avoca. 

Charles Larrowe .Cohocton. 


SUFFOLK COUNTY. 

FIRST ASSEMBLY DISTRICT. 

Delegates. 

George H. Furman .Patchogue. 

DeWitt C. Talmage .Easthampton. 

Harry Lee .Riverhead. 

Alvin >F. Squires .Good Ground. 

Alvin P. Tuthill .Mattituck. 

John G. Downs .Cutchogue. 


D. 


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Alternates. 

Charles W. Dare ... 

.Port Jefferson. 

Nelson C. Osborn .. 


George T. Reeve, Jr. 


Benjamin C. Halsey 


Henry F. Van Wyck 


Irving M. Rogers ..., 


SECOND ASSEMBLY DISTRICT. 

Delegates. 


Benjamin B. Wood .. 


Alexander Mair . 


Richard W. Hawkins 


Lawrence Butler .... 


George L. Thompson 


Alternates. 

John Clinton Robbins 


William Bacon, Sr. . 


Henry A. Murphy ... 


John F. Kelly . 


Paul Baily . 

SULLIVAN COUNTY. 

Delegates. 

John T. Curtis . 


William B. Voorhies. 


Henry F. Gardner .. . 


Joseph Rosch . 


Alternates. 

Dr. F. W. Laidlaw .... 


Dr. W. H. H. Hoar .. 


Mercein Skinner . 


N. B. Brown . 

TIOGA COUNTY. 

Delegates. 

William A. Smyth .. .. 


Daniel P. Witter . 


Edwin S. Hanford .... 


Alternates. 

S. Wells Thompson .. 


James H. Jennings .. . 


Henry L. Emens .... 



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TOMPKINS COUNTY. 


Delegates. 

Edwin C. Stewart .Ithaca. 

Morris S. Halliday .Ithaca. 

Casper Fenner .. Lake Ridge. 

R. G. Robinson .Ithaca. 


Alternates. 

N. A. Collings .Groton. 

Fay Skillings ...Freeville, R. F. D. 16. 

Charles R. Bruce .Danby (Ithaca R. F. D. 4 ) 

Harry Colegrove .Trumansburg. 


ULSTER COUNTY. 


FIRST ASSEMBLY DISTRICT. 

Delegates. 

Charles W. Walton 
Myron Bedell ..... 

Philip Elting . 

Andrew Lang . 

S. Frank Ten Eyck 
Cornelius Du Mond 

Alternates. 


Carl G. Fischer .Kingston. 

Harry Wells .Saugerties. 

Joel Brink .Lake Katrine. 

S. B. Schwarzwaelder .Chichester. 

J. Charles Snyder .Kingston. 

Wallace Shultis .Woodstock. 


Kingston. 

Saugerties, 

Kingston. 

Kingston. 

Hurley. 

Kingston. 


SECOND ASSEMBLY DISTRICT. 


Delegates. 

Frank J. LeFevre .New Paltz. 

Harcourt J. Pratt.Highland. 

Charles Schoonmaker .Ulster Park. 

W. Kelly Shook .Ellenville. 

William S. Hartshorn.Plattekill. 

Alternates. 

Egbert Elsworth .Port Ewen. 

DeWitt Barley .Alligerville. 

Josiah H. Pinney .Wallkill. 

Jay H. Heaton .Clintondale. 

Edward Young .Milton. 


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WARREN COUNTY. 

Delegates. 

J. A. Emerson .Warrensburgh. 

George Tait .Glens Falls. 

W. H. Kettenbach .Chestertown. 

William O’Conner .Hague. 

George F. Bayle .Glens Falls. 


Alternates. 

Frank C. Hooper .North River. 

Norman R. Gourlay .Glens Falls; 

Edgar S. Bullis .Glens Falls. 

John T. Bryant .Lake George. 

Frank F. Bullard . 


WASHINGTON COUNTY. 

Delegates. 


James S. Parker . 


Charles R. Paris . 


Charles O. Pratt . 


Eugene R. Norton . 


Wyman S. Bascom . 


I. V. H. Gill . 


Henry Neddo . 


Alternates. 

Frank A. Hill . 


James J. O’Brien . 


Forrest E. Kenyon . 


James L. McArthur. 


Thomas F. Adriance . 


Howard McClellan .. 


R. E. Warren. 



WAYNE COUNTY. 


Delegates. 

Charles H. Betts .Lyons. 

Frederick W. Griffith .Palmyra. 

Gordon H. Harris .Newark. 

John Van Doom .Marion. 

Charles Feuvester .Ontario. 

Charles Bridger .North Rose. 

Morris E. Burke .Wolcott. 


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Alternates. 

Frank D. Gaylord . 

Riley A. Wilson ... 

U. W. Sherburne . 

George H. Quereau 
Frank M. Gordon .. 

Harvey C. Watson 
Frank P. Allyn _ 

WESTCHESTER COUNTY. 

FIRST ASSEMBLY DISTRICT. 


Delegates. 

William B. Thompson .Yonkers. 

Francis A. Winslow .Yonkers. 

William J. Wallin ..Yonkers. 

Gideon H. Peck .Yonkers. 

Arthur S. Maudlin .Yonkers. 

Ulrich Wiesdanger .Yonkers. 

Roscoe Conklin .....Yonkers. 

Alternates. 

Albert N. Carthwaite .Yonkers. 

Alfred H. lies ....Yonkers 

Edward A. Forsyth .Yonkers. 

Robert Ferguson .Yonkers. 

Belaslan Kossalsowsky .Yonkers. 

G. De Liguori .Yonkers. 

Joseph Arbiter .Yonkers. 


SECOND ASSEMBLY DISTRICT. 


Sodus. 

Sodus. 

Walworth. 

North Rose. 

Williamson. 

Clyde. 

Macedon. 


Delegates. 

William Archer .Mt. Vernon. 

Mark D. Stiles .Mt. Vernon. 

Thomas A. McKennell.Mt. Vernon. 

George I. Roberts .New Rochelle. 

Robert Lesser .New Rochelle. 

Hugh Govern .....New Rochelle. 

B. G. Burnett .Bronxville. 

Hugh Herndon .Pelham. 

Alternates. 

H. Drummond Brown .Mt. Vernon. 

William C. Clark .Mt. Vernon. 

Dr. R. J. Secor .Mt. Vernon. 


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Francis X. Fallon .New Rochelle. 

A. E. Mazes .New Rochelle. 

J. W. Linden . New Rochelle. 

Harry M. Hoop .Bronxville. 

Harry A. Anderson ..Pelham. 


THIRD ASSEMBLY DISTRICT. 

Delegates. 

Franklin Montross .Peekskill. 

James K. Apgar .Peekskill. 

Charles D. Millard..Tarrytown. 


Robert Dashwood . 


S. Wood Cornell. 


G. Fred Van Tassell . 


Walter W. Law, Jr. 


John F. Jenkins . 


Alternates. 

Isaac H. Smith . 


James Dimond . 


William C. Lawrence . 


William A. Buckley . 


Seabury C. Mastick . 


Edward P. Hanyen . 


Michael J. Garvey . 


Oliver J. Bevier . 



FOURTH ASSEMBLY DISTRICT. 

Delegates. 

William L. Ward .Port Chester. 

George A. Slater .Port Chester. 

E. P. Barrett .Katonah. 

George W. Mead .Lake Waccabuc. 

Harvey B. Green .Chappaqua. 

Frank S. Reynolds ... ... Purdys Station. 

Charles McDonald .Armonk. 


Alternates. 

William A. Davidson .Port Chester. 

Robert P. Smith .White Plains. 

Frederick H. Vinton .Bedford. 

Joseph E. Merriam .Mt. Kisco. 

Howard R. Washburn .Chappaqua. 

Charles J. F. Decker .Croton Falls. 

Morris Mayers .Harrison. 




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Alternates. 
James E. Nash .. 
John Knight 

A. E. Wellman .. 
L. A. Walker 
John C. Maher .. 

Alternates. 
Levi A. Cass 
R. F. Shorenstein 
Harry Beardsley 
F. C. Eastman .. 

B. F. Disbrow .. 


WYOMING COUNTY. 

.Silver Springs. 

.Arcade. 

.Pavilion. 

.Perry. 

.Castile. 


Warsaw. 

Castile. 

Portageville. 

Warsaw. 

Attica. 


YATES COUNTY. 

Alternates. 

H. S. Fullagar .Penn Yan. 

Spencer F. Lincoln .Penn Yan. 

H. H. Hardman . Penn Yan. 

Alternates. 

Samuel J. Barnes .Penn Yan. 

David Miller .Penn Yan. 

Harry R. Brate .Dundee. 

Substitutions of others than elected Alternates were made as 
follows: 

Albany, 1st Dist.—Oliver A. Quayle in place of William L. 
Visscher. 

Broome—Harvey D. Hinman and James K. Nichols in place of 
Samuel L. Smith and George A. Kent. 

Chautauqua, 1st Dist.—A. F. Allen and L. B. Humebaugh in 
place of H. S. Sweetland and Henri M. Hall. 

Chautauqua, 2nd Dist.—A. B. Ottaway, C. J. Bannister and C. 
M. Hamilton in place of Arthur Maytum, Henry I. Keith and Wil¬ 
liam R. Nowak. 

Erie, 1st Dist.—LeRoy A. Lincoln in place of John Markett. 
Erie, 2nd Dist.—Edward R. O’Malley in place of Frank Sidway. 
Erie, 5th Dist.—Nicholas J. Miller in place of Otto Werner. 

Erie, 7th Dist.—C. Hamilton Cook in place of James Chalmers. 
Erie, 8th Dist—Charles J. Waldo and Paul J. Bott in place of 
William Lansill and Arthur Kreinheder. 


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Franklin—Alexander MacDonald in place of W. C. Leonard. 

Jefferson, 2nd Dist.—L. G. DeCant, in place of E. J. Tallman. 

New -York, 10th Dist.—William A. Orr, in place of Frederick L. 
Marshall. 

New York, 28th Dist.—John A. Sleicher, in place ©f Charles 
Wines. 

Niagara, 2nd Dist.—A. C. Dewell in place of Emmet E. Clancy. 

Oneida, 1st Dist.—D. F. Breitenstein, in place of J. S. Kubu. 

Onondaga, 1st Dist.—Fred Betts, in place of Mathew J. Frawley. 

Onondaga, 2nd Dist.—William P. Baker, in place of Leroy B. 
Williams. 

Ontario,—Homer E. Snyder, in place of William B. Osborne. 

Orleans.—Frank A. Waters and John B. Borden, in place of 
Ernest S. Breed and C. Royce Sawyer. 

Oswego.—W. C. Richards, in place of Henry D. Colville. 

St. Lawrence, 1st Dist.—W. Allan Newell, in place of William 
A. Laidlaw. 

St. Lawrence, 2nd Dist.—B. H. Snell and K. J. Snell, in place 
of Ceylon G. Chaney and Frank L. Cubley. 

Schuyler.—F. A. Frost, in place of George Steverts. 

Seneca.—Norman J Gould, in place of Francis C. Allen. 

Steuben, 1st Dist.—William J. Tully, in place of Thomas P. 
O’Bryan. 

Sullivan.—M. J. McGibbon, in place of W. H. H. Hoar. 

Washington.—George Underwood, in place of I. V. H. Gill. 

Wayne.—James J. Goetchell, in place of Charles Bridger. 

The Chairman of the Republican State Committee: “Gentle¬ 
men of the Convention, we are taking tonight the first step to¬ 
ward a great Republican victory. (Applause). It is altogether 
flitting at this crisis that the first call to arms should be 
sounded by the most distinguished statesman of our time. (Ap¬ 
plause). Under direction of the Republican State Committee, I pre¬ 
sent to you as the name of your temporary chairman, the Hon. 
Elihu Root. (Prolonged applause). The question is upon the 
motion. All in favor of electing Mr. Root, signify by saying Aye, 
Contrary, No. 'The motion is carried unanimously. The Chair will 
appoint the Hon. Charles D. Hilles, of New York and the Hon. 
Edward Schoeneck, of Syracuse, to escort Senator Root to the 
platform. 


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Gentlemen of the Convention, Senator Root. 

Senator Root addressed the Convention as follows: 

We are entering upon a contest for the election of a president 
and the control of government under conditions essentially new in 
the experience of our country. The forms which we are about to fol¬ 
low are old and familiar; but the grounds for action, the demand of 
great events for decision upon national conduct, the moral forces 
urging to a solution of vaguely outlined questions, the tremendous 
consequences of wisdom or folly in national policy, all these are new 
to the great mass of American voters. Never since 1864 has an 
election been fraught with consequences so vital to national life. 
All the ordinary-considerations which play so great a part in our 
presidential campaigns are and ought to be dwarfed into insig¬ 
nificance. 

For the first time in twenty years we enter the field as the party 
of opposition, and indeed it is a much longer time, for in 1896 , in 
all respects save the tariff, the real opposition .to the sturdy and 
patriotic course of President Cleveland was to be found in the party 
that followed Mr. Bryan. It is our duty as the opposition to bring 
the Democratic party to the bar of public judgment, to put it upon 
its defense so far as we see just and substantial grounds to criticize 
its conduct, and to ask the voters of the country to decide whether 
that party, organized as it is, represented as it has been since it came 
into power, has shown itself competent to govern the country as it 
should be governed and whether its spirit, its policies, and its per¬ 
formance are the best that the American people can do in the way of 
popular self government. 

In the field of domestic affairs some facts relevant to these 
questions had already been ascertained when in August, 1914 , the 
great European War began. During the year and a half of Demo¬ 
cratic control of government in a period of profound peace there 
had been a steady decrease in American production, in exports and 
in revenues, and a steady increase in imports and expenditures. En¬ 
terprise had halted. New undertakings no longer made their appear¬ 
ance. Established business ceased to increase its facilities or enlarge 
its fields of action. The great productive industries of the country 
were laboring under a misfit tariff devised by the Democratic party 
in a spirit of distrust and hostility towards American business enter¬ 
prise; and, with the ditsurbance of these great basic industries, trans¬ 
portation and commerce had become dull and despondent. The 
Democratic tariff had been framed upon an avowed repudiation of all 
protection however moderate and reasonable; and because all pro- 


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tection was repudiated, practically all information from competent 
witnesses as to the effect new provisions would have upon business 
was rejected. The Tariff Commission created under Republican legis¬ 
lation to ascertain the facts upon which tariff laws should be based 
was driven out of office and no substitute was provided. With self 
satisfied complacency the Democratic Congress assumed that the 
theory of a tariff for revenue only was a satisfactory substitute for 
knowledge of business conditions in the framing of a customs law, 
and they made a tariff which stopped the development of business 
along all the great lines of production and also failed to produce 
revenue. The men who represented the Democratic party in Wash¬ 
ington had been so long declaiming against those whom they con¬ 
sidered the beneficiaries of the protective tariff that their hostility 
extended to American business itself and to the men who conducted 
it. All profitable enterprise was under suspicion. Government had 
no sympathy with it, no desire to promote it, no sense of responsi¬ 
bility to protect it. There was a nervous dread lest somebody should 
make money. Envy of business success and the phrases of the dema¬ 
gogue were potent elements in the framing of legislation and the ad¬ 
ministration of the laws. 

It was with just cause that the enterprise of the country halted, 
timid and irresolute, because it felt and feared the hostility of gov¬ 
ernment. 

The great war has not changed the lesson which we had already 
learned when it began. It has but obscured further demonstration. 
It has caused an enormous demand for some things which the United 
States is able to produce in large quantities, and in these lines of 
production there have been extensive employment of labor, great 
exports and a great influx of money. But this is temporary, it must 
soon cease, and when the factories have stopped and their laborers 
are no longer employed we must deal with a situation for which wise 
forethought should make provision. More important still, the war 
has paralyzed the peaceful industries of all Europe, and has stopped 
that competitive foreign production which in July, 1914 , had already 
entered American markets to supersede American products under the 
Tariff Law of 1913 . The war has thus given to American products 
an immunity from competition far more effective than any possible 
protective tariff. But that is temporary, and when the war is over, 
when foreign production begins again, the American market, com¬ 
pared with impoverished Europe, will be more than ever before the 
object of desire and effort, and we shall become the dumping ground 
of the world to the destruction of our'own industries unless that is 
prevented by a wise and competent government. 


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But i3 is not from domestic questions that the most difficult prob¬ 
lems of this day arise. The events of the last few years have taught 
us many lessons. We have learned that civilization is but a veneer 
thinly covering the savage nature of man; that conventions, courte¬ 
sies, respect for law, regard for justice and humanity, are acquired 
habits, feebly constraining the elemental forces of man’s nature de¬ 
veloped through countless centuries of struggle against wild beasts 
and savage foes. We have been forced to perceive that a nation 
which fulfills the conditions on which alone it can continue to exist, 
which preserves its independence and the liberty of its people and 
makes its power a shield for the rights of its citizens, must deal 
with greed and lust of conquest and of power and indifference to hu¬ 
man rights. We have seen that neither the faith of treaties nor the 
law of nations affords protection to the weak against the aggression 
of the strong. We have begun to realize that America, with its vast 
foreign trade, with its citizens scattered over the whole earth, with 
millions of aliens upon its soil, with its constantly increasing partic¬ 
ipation in world wide efforts for the benefit of mankind, with a thous¬ 
and bonds of intercourse and intimacy uniting it to other nations, is 
no longer isolated; that our nation can no longer live unto itself 
alone or stand aloof from the rest of mankind; that we must play 
some part in the progress of civilization, recognize some duties as 
correlative to our rights. For the first time within the memory of 
men now living, the international relations of the United States, long 
deemed of trifling consequence, are recognized as vital. How can 
this nation, which loves peace and intends justice, avoid the curse of 
militarism and at the same time preserve its independence, defend its 
territory, protect the lives and liberty and property of its citizens? 
How can we prevent the same principles of action, the same policies 
of conduct, the same forces of military power which are exhibited in 
Europe from laying hold upon the vast territory and practically un¬ 
defended wealth of the new world? Can we expect immunity? Can 
we command immunity? How shall we play our part in the world? 
Have selfish living and factional quarreling and easy prosperity ob¬ 
scured the spiritual vision of our country? Has the patriotism of a 
generation never summoned to sacrifice become lifeless? Is our na¬ 
tion one, or a discordant multitude? Have we still national ideals? 
Will anybody live for them? Would anybody die for them? Or are 
we all for ease and coftifort and wealth at any price, Confronted by 
such questions as these and the practical situations which give rise 
to them, is the country satisfied to trust itself again in the hands of 
the Democratic party? 

When a president and secretary of state have been lawfully es¬ 
tablished in office the power of initiative in foreign affairs rests with 

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them. The nation is in their hands*. Theirs is the authority and 
theirs the duty to adopt and act upon policies, subject to such laws 
as Congress may enact within constitutional limits. Parliamentary 
opposition can take no affirmative step; can accomplish no affirma¬ 
tive action. The expression of public opinion can do nothing except 
as it produces an influence upon the minds of those officers who have 
the lawful power to conduct our foreign relations. Their policy is 
the country’s policy because it is they who are authorized to act for 
the country. While they are working out their policy all opposition, 
all criticism, all condemnation, are at the risk of weakening the case 
of one’s own country and, frustrating the efforts of its lawful repre¬ 
sentatives to succeed in what they are seeking to accomplish for the 
country’s benefit. An American should wish the representatives of 
his country to succeed whatever may be their party unless there be 
wrongdoing against conscience. However much he may doubt the 
wisdom of their course he should help them where he can and refrain 
from placing obstacles in their way. But when the president and 
secretary of state have acted, and seek a new grant of power, they 
and the party which is responsible for them must account for their 
use of power to the people from whom it came, and the people must 
pass judgment upon them, and then full and frank public discussion 
becomes the citizen’s duty. 

The United States had rights and duties in Mexico. More than 
forty thousand of our citizens had sought their fortunes and made 
their homes there. A thousand millions of American capital had been 
invested in that rich and productive country, and millions of income 
from these enterprises were annually returned to the United States 
not merely for the benefit of the investors, but for the enrichment of 
our whole country and all its production and enterprise. But revo¬ 
lution had come, and factional warfare was rife. Americans had been 
murdered, American property had been wantonly destroyed, the lives 
and property of all Americans in Mexico were in danger. That was 
the situation when Mr. Wilson become president in March, 1913 . 
His duty then was plain. It was first, to use his powers as president, 
to secure protection for the lives and property of Americans in Mex¬ 
ico and to require that the rules of law and stipulations of treat¬ 
ies should be observed by Mexico towards the United States and its 
citizens. His duty was, second, as the head»of a foreign power to 
respect the independence of Mexico, to refrain from all interference 
with her internal affairs, except as he was justified by the law of na¬ 
tions for the protection of American rights. The President of the 
United States failed to observe either of those duties. He deliber¬ 
ately abandoned them both and followed an entirely different and in- 


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consistent purpose. He intervened in Mexico to aid one faction in 
civil strife against another. He undertook to pull down Huerta and 
set Carranza up in his place. Huerta was in possession. He claimed 
to be the constitutional president of Mexico. He certainly was the 
de facto president of Mexico. Rightly or wrongly, good or bad, he 
was there. From the north Carranza and a group of independent 
chieftains were endeavoring to pull down the power of Huerta. 
President Wilson took sides with them in pulling down that power. 
In August, 1913 , through Mr. John Lind, he presented to Huerta a 
communication which was in substance a demand that Huerta should 
retire permanently from the government of Mexico. When Huerta 
refused, the power of the United States was applied to turn him out. 
Foreign nations were induced to refuse to his government the loans 
of money necessary to repair the ravages of war and establish order. 
Arms and munitions of war were freely furnished to the Northern 
forces and withheld from Huerta. Finally the President sent our 
army and navy to invade Mexico and capture its great sea port, Vera 
Cruz, and hold it and throttle Mexican commerce until Huerta fell. 
The government of the United States intervened in Mexico to control 
the internal affairs of that independent country and to enforce the 
will of the American President in those affairs by threat, by economic 
pressure, and by force of arms. Upon what claim of right did this 
intervention proceed? Not to secure respect for American rights; 
not to protect the lives or property of our citizens; not to assert the 
law of nations; not to compel observance of the law o 1 humanity. 
On the contrary, Huerta’s was the only power in Mexico to which 
appeal could be made for protection of life or property. That was the 
only power which in fact did protect either American or European 
or Mexican. It was only within the territory where Huerta ruled 
that comparative peace and order prevailed. The territory over which 
the armed power of Carranza and Villa and their associates extended 
was the theatre of the most appalling crimes. Bands of robbers roved 
the country with unbridled license. Americans and Mexicans alike 
were at their mercy, and American men were murdered and Amer¬ 
ican women were outraged with impunity. Thousands were reduced 
to poverty by the wanton destruction of the industries through which 
they lived. The payment of blackmail was the only protection of 
property against burnings and robbery. No one in authority could 
or would give protection or redress. It had become perfectly plain 
that the terms upon which both Carranza and Villa held their sup¬ 
porters, were unrestricted opportunity and license for murder, rob¬ 
bery and lust. Yet the government of the United States ignored, 
condoned, the murder of American men and the rape of American 
women and destruction of American property and insult to American 

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officers and defilement of the American flag and joined itself to the 
men who were guilty of all these things to pull down the power of 
Huerta. Why? The President himself has told us. It was because 
he adjudged Huerta to be a usurper; because he deemed that the 
common people of Mexico ought to have greater participation in 
government and share in the land; and he believed that Carranza 
and Villa would give them these things. We must all sympathize 
with these sentiments, but there is nothing more dangerous than mis¬ 
placed sentiment. Of all men in this world, the man who had vested 
in him the executive power of the United States was least at liberty 
to sit in judgment of his own motion upon the title of a claimant to 
the Mexican presidency or to reform the land laws of Mexico. 

The results of this interference were most unfortunate. If our 
government had sent an armed force into Mexico to protect American 
life and honor we might have been opposed but we should have been 
understood and respected by the people of Mexico, because they 
would have realized that we were acting within our international 
rights and performing a nation’s duty for the protection of its own 
people; but when the President sent an armed force into Mexico to 
determine the Mexican presidential succession he created resent¬ 
ment and distrust of motives among all classes and sections of the 
Mexican people. When our army landed at Vera Cruz, Carranza 
himself, who was to be the chief beneficiary of the act, publicly pro¬ 
tested against it. So strong was the resentment that he could not have 
kept his followers otherwise. When Huerta had fallen the new govern¬ 
ment which for the day had succeeded to his place peremptorily de¬ 
manded the withdrawal of the American troops. The universal senti¬ 
ment of Mexicans required that peremptory demand, and the troop* 
were withdrawn. Still worse than that, the taking of Vera Cruz 
destroyed confidence in the sincerity of the American government in 
Mexico because every intelligent man in Mexico believed that the 
avowed reason for the act was not the real reason. The avowed pur¬ 
pose was to compel a salute to the American flag. I will state the 
circumstances: On the ninth of April, 1914 , a boat’s crew from the 
Dolphin landed at a wharf in Tampico to take off supplies. The use of 
that wharf had been prohibited, and the Mexican officer in charge of 
the wharf put the crew under arrest, but a higher officer ordered him 
to hold the boat’s crew at the wharf and await instructions. Within 
an hour and a half the crew was set free. No injury or indignity wa* 
suffered except the fact of the arrest. Immediate amends were made. 
The Mexican officer in command at Tampico apologized; General 
Huerta’s government apologized; the officer who made the arrest wa* 
himself arrested and his punishment promised. The admiral in com¬ 
mand of our fleet at Tampico demanded more public amends through 


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a salute to our flag, but there ensued a discussion as to the facts and 
as to the character of the salute which the circumstances demanded, 
the number of guns, and how, if at all, the salute was to be returned. 
While that discussion was pending and avowedly because of that inci¬ 
dent the American government presented a twenty-four hour ulti¬ 
matum and landed an armed force and captured the City of Vera 
Cruz. Three hundred Mexicans were reported killed; seventeen 
United States Marines were killed and many were wounded. At that 
very time Mr. Bryan, with the President’s approval, was signing treat¬ 
ies with half the world agreeing that if any controversy should arise 
it should be submitted to a joint commission and no action should be 
taken until after a full year had elapsed. This controversy arose on 
the ninth of April, and on the twenty-first of the same month Vera 
Cruz was taken. Several times the troops of Carranza and Villa 
had arrested and imprisoned American consular officers and torn 
down the American flags from the consulates and trampled them in 
the mire, with indescribable indignities. The proofs were in our 
hands and no attention was paid to them. Many times soldiers of the 
United States, in uniform, on duty, had been shot and killed or 
wounded across the border by soldiers of Carranza and Villa. More 
than fifty of them have been killed in this way and no attention has 
been paid to it. The demand of a salute to the flag was never heard 
of again after Vera Cruz was captured. There is not an intelligent 
man in Mexico who believes that the dispute about the salute was the 
real reason for the capture of Vera Cruz. Is there one here who 
doubts that the alleged cause was but a pretext and that the real cause 
was the purpose to turn Huerta out of office? The people of Mexico, 
who saw their unoffending city captured by force of arms, three 
hundred of its people slain, their soil violated, a foreign flag floating 
over their great seaport, upon what they felt to be a false pretense, 
were misled into imputing a more sinister purpose still—to secure con¬ 
trol of Mexico for the United States; and they believed that when the 
American troops* departed, that purpose was abandoned through fear. 
With the occupation of Vera Cruz the moral power of the United 
States in Mexico ended. We were then and we are now hated for 
what we did to Mexico, and we were then and we are now despised 
for our feeble and irresolute failure to protect the lives and rights of 
our citizens. No flag is so dishonored and no citizenship so littlt 
worth the claiming in Mexico as ours. And that is why we have failed 
in Mexico. 

Incredible as it seems, Huerta had been turned out by the assist¬ 
ance of the American government without any guaranties from the 
men who were to be set up in his place, and so the murdering and 
burning and ravishing have gone on to this day. After Huerta had 

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fallen and the Vera Cruz expedition had been withdrawn, President 
Wilson announced that no one was entitled to interfere in the affairs 
of Mexico; that she was entitled to settle them herself. He dis¬ 
claims all responsibility for what happens in Mexico and contents 
himself with a policy of Watchful Waiting. But who can interfere in 
a quarrel and help some contestants and destroy others and then ab¬ 
solve himself from responsibility for the results? It is not by force 
of circumstances over which we had no control, but largely because 
the American administration intervened by force to control the inter¬ 
nal affairs of that country instead of asserting and maintaining Amer¬ 
ican rights that we have been brought to our present pass of con¬ 
fusion and humiliation over Mexico. 

And for the death and outrage, the suffering and ruin of our own 
brethren the hatred and contempt for our country, and the dishonor 
of our name in that land, the Administration at Washington shares 
responsibility with the inhuman brutes with whom it made com¬ 
mon cause. 

When we turn to the Administration’s conduct of foreign affairs 
incident to the great war in Europe we cannot fail to perceive that 
there is much dissatisfaction among Americans. Some are dissatisfied 
for specific reasons, some with a vague impression that our diplomacy 
has been inadequate. Dissatisfaction is not in itself ground for con¬ 
demnation. The best work of the diplomatist often fails to receive 
public approval at the time and must look to a calm view in the dis¬ 
passionate future for recognition of its merit. The situation created 
by the war has been difficult and trying. Much of the correspondence 
of the State Department, especially since Mr. Lansing took charge, 
has been characterized by accurate learning and skillful statement of 
specific American rights. Every one in the performance of new and 
unprecedented duties is entitled to generous allowance for unavoid¬ 
able short-comings and errors. No one should be held to the accom¬ 
plishment of the impossible. The question whether dissatisfaction is 
just or unjust is to be determined upon an examination of the great 
lines of policy which have been followed and upon considering 
whether the emergencies of the time have been met with foresight, 
wisdom and decisive courage. If these are lacking as guides, all the 
learning of the institutes and the highest of skill in correspondence 
are of little avail. 

A study of the Administration’s policy towards Europe since July, 
1914 , reveals three fundamental errors. First, the lack of foresight to 
make timely provision for backing up American diplomacy by actual 
or assured military and naval force. Second, the forfeiture of the 
world’s respect for our assertion of rights by pursuing the policy of 


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making threats and failing to make them good. Third, a loss of the 
moral forces of the civilized world through failure to truly interpret 
to the world the spirit of the American democracy in its attitude 
towards the terrible events which accompanied the early stages of 
the war. 

First, as to power. 

When the war in Europe began, free, peaceable little Switzerland 
instantly mobilized upon her frontier a great army of trained citizen 
soldiers. Sturdy little Holland did the same, and, standing within 
the very sound of the guns, both have kept their territory and their 
independence inviolate. Nobody has run over them because they have 
made it apparent that the cost would be too great. 

Great, peaceable America was further removed from the conflict, 
but her trade and her citizens traveled on every sea. Ordinary 
knowledge of European affairs made it plain that the war was begun 
not by accident but with purpose which would not soon be relin¬ 
quished. Ordinary knowledge of military events made it plain from 
the moment when the tide of German invasion turned from the Battle 
of the Marne that the conflict was certain to be long and desperate. 
Ordinary knowledge of history—of our own history during the 
Napoleonic Wars—made it plain that in that conflict neutral rights 
would be worthless unless powerfully maintained. All the world had 
fair notice that, as against the desperate belligerent resolve to con¬ 
quer, the law of nations and the law of humanity interposed no effect¬ 
ive barriers fort the protection of neutral rights. Ordinary practical 
sense in the conduct of affairs demanded that such steps should be 
taken that behind the peaceful assertion of our country’s rights, its 
independence and its honor, should stand power, manifest and avail¬ 
able, warning the whole world that it would cost too much to press 
aggression too far. The Democratic government at Washington did 
not see it. Others saw it and their opinions found voice. Mr. Gard¬ 
ner urged it; Mr. Lodge urged it; Mr. Stimson urged it; Mr. Roose¬ 
velt urged it; but their argument and urgency were ascribed to po¬ 
litical motives; and the President described them with a sneer as 
being nervous and excited. 

But the warning voices would not be stilled. The opinion that 
we ought no longer to remain defenseless became public opinion. Its 
expression grew more general and insistent, and finally the President, 
not leading, but following, has shifted his ground, has reversed his 
position, and asks the country to prepare against war. God grant 
that he be not too late. But the Democratic party has not shifted 
its ground. A large part of its members in Congress are endeavoring 
now to sidetrack the movement for national preparedness; to muddle 


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it by amendment and turn it into channels which will produce the 
least possible result in the increase of national power of defense. 
What sense of effectiveness in this effort can we gather from the 
presence of Josephus . Daniels at the most critical post of all— the 
head of the Navy Department; when we see that where prepara¬ 
tion has been possible it has not been made; when we see that con¬ 
struction of war ships already authorized has not been pressed, and 
in some cases after long delay has not even been begun. 

If an increase of our country’s power to defend itself against ag¬ 
gression is authorized by the present Congress it must be largely 
through Republican votes, because the representatives of the Re¬ 
publican party in Washington stand for the country no matter who 
is president; and all the traditions and convictions of that party are 
for national power and duty and honor. 

As for the policy of threatening words without deeds. 

When Germany gave notice of her purpose to sink merchant 
vessels on the high seas without safeguarding the lives of innocent 
passengers, our government replied on the tenth of February, one 
year ago, in the following words: 

“The Government of the United States * * * feels it to be its 
duty to call the attention of the Imperial German Government, with 
sincere respect and the most friendly sentiments but very candidly 
and earnestly, to the very serious possibilities of the course of action 
apparently contemplated under that proclamation. 

“The Government of the United States views those possibilities 
with such grave concern that it feels it to be its privilege, and indeed 
its duty in the circumstances, to request the Imperial German Gov¬ 
ernment to consider before action is taken the critical situation in re¬ 
spect of the relations between this country and Germany which might 
arise were the German naval forces, in carrying out the policy fore¬ 
shadowed in the Admirality’s proclamation, to destroy any merchant 
vessel of the United States or cause the death of American citizens. 

“* * * If such a deplorable situation should arise, the Imperial 
German Government can readily appreciate that the Government of 
the United States would be constrained to hold the Imperial Ger¬ 
man Government to a strict accountability for such acts of their naval 
authorities and to take any steps it might be necessary to take to 
safeguard American lives and property and to secure to American 
citizens the full enjoyment of their acknowledged rights on the high 
seas.” 

By all the usages and traditions of diplomatic intercourse those 
words meant action. They informed Germany in unmistakable 


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terms that in attacking and sinking vessels of the United States 
and in destroying the lives of American citizens lawfully traveling 
upon merchant vessels of other countries, she would act at her peril. 
They pledged the power and courage of America, with her hundred 
million people and her vast wealth, to the protection of her citizens, 
as during all her history through the days of her youth and weakness 
she had always protected them. 

On the 28th of March, the passenger steamer Falaba was tor¬ 
pedoed by a German submarine, and an American citizen was killed, 
but nothing was done. On the 28th of April, the American vessel 
Cushing was attacked and crippled by a German aeroplane. On the 
first of May, the American vessel Gulflight was torpedoed and sunk 
by a German submarine, and two or more Americans were killed, 
yet nothing was done. On the 7th of May, the Lusitania was tor¬ 
pedoed and sunk by a German submarine, and more than one hundred 
Americans and eleven hundred other non-combatants were drowned. 
The very thing which our government had warned Germany she 
must not do, Germany did of set purpose and in the most con- 
temptous and shocking way. Then, when all America was stirred to 
the depths, our Government addressed another note to Germany. 
It repeated its assertion of American rights, and renewed its bold 
declaration of purpose. It declared again that the American Govern¬ 
ment “must hold the Imperial German Government to a strict ac¬ 
countability for any infringement of those rights, intentional or in¬ 
cidental,” and it declared that it would not “omit any word or any act 
necessary to the performance of its sacred duty of maintaining the 
rights of the United States and its citizens and or safeguarding their 
free exercise and enjoyment.” 

Still nothing was done, and a long and technical correspondence 
ensued; haggling over petty questions of detail, every American 
note growing less and less strong and peremptory, until the Arabic 
was torpedoed and sunk, and more American lives were destroyed, 
and still nothing was done, and the correspondence continued until 
the Allied defense against Germany submarine warfare made it un¬ 
profitable and led to its abandonment, and the correspondence is 
apparently aypproaching its end without securing even that partial 
protection for the future which might be found in an admission that 
the destruction of the Lusitania was forbidden* by law. The later 
correspondence has been conducted by our State Department with 
dignity, but it has been futile. An admission of liability for damages 
has been secured, but the time for real protection to American rights 
has long since passed. Our government undertook one year ago to 
prevent the destruction of American life by submarine attack, and 


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that the attempt has failed and our citizens are long since dead and 
the system of attack has fallen of its own weight, there is small 
advantage in discussing whether we shall not have an admission 
that it was unlawful to kill them. 

The brave words with which we began the controversy had 
produced no effect, because they were read in the light of two 
extraordinary events. One was the report of the Austrian Ambas¬ 
sador, Mr. Dumba, to his government, that when the American note 
of February 10 th was received, he asked the Secretary of State, Mr. 
Bryan,'whether it meant business, and received an answer which satis¬ 
fied him that it did not, but was intended for effect at home in 
America. 

The other event was the strange and unfortunate declaration of 
the President in a public speech in Philadelphia the fourth day after 
the sinking of the Lusitania that “a man may be too proud to fight.” 
Whatever the Austrian Ambassador was in fact told by the Secre¬ 
tary of State, the impression which he reported was supported by 
the events which followed. Whatever the President did mean, his 
declaration, made in public at that solemn time, amid the horror 
and mourning of all our people over the murder of their brethren, 
was accepted the world over as presenting the attitude of the Amer¬ 
ican government towards the protection of the life and liberty of 
American citizens in the exercise of their just rights, and throughout 
the world the phrase “too proud to fight” became a by-word of de¬ 
rision and contempt for the Government of the United States. Later, 
in another theatre of war—the Mediterranean—Austria, and perhaps 
Turkey also, resumed the practice. The Ancona and then the Persia 
were destroyed, and more Americans were killed. Why should they 
not resume the practice? They had learned to believe that, no mat¬ 
ter how shocked the American Government might be, its resolution 
would expend itself in words. They had learned to believee that it 
was safe to kill Americans,—and the world believed with them. 
Measured and restrained expression, backed to the full by the 
serious purpose, is strong and respected. Extreme and belligerent 
expression, unsupported by resolution, is weak and without effect. 
No man should draw a pistol who dares not shoot. The govern¬ 
ment that shakes its fist first and its finger afterwards falls into 
contempt. Our diplomacy has lost its authority and influence because 
we have been brave in words and irresolute in action. Men may 
say that the words of our diplomatic notes were justified; men may 
say that our inaction was justified; but no man can say that both 
our words and our inaction were wise and creditable. 

I have said that this government lost the moral forces of the 


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world by not truly interpreting the spirit of the American democracy. 

The American democracy stands for something more than beef 
and cotton and grain and manufactures; stands for something that 
cannot be measured by rates of exchange, and does not rise or fall 
with the balance of trade. The American people achieved liberty 
and schooled themselves to the service of justice before they acquired 
wealth, and they value their country’s liberty and justice above all 
their pride of possessions.* Beneath their comfortable optimism and 
apparent indifference they have a conception of their great republic 
as brave and strong and noble to hand down to their children the 
blessings of freedom and just and equal laws. They have embodied 
their principles of government in fixed rules of right conduct which 
they jealously preserve, and, with the instinct of individual freedom, 
they stand for a government of laws and not for men. They deem 
that the moral laws which formulate the duties of men towards each 
other are binding upon nations equally with individuals. Informed 
by their own experience, confirmed by their observation of inter¬ 
national life, they have come to see that the independence of nations, 
the liberty of their peoples, justice and humanity, cannot be main¬ 
tained upon the good nature, the kindly feeling, of the strong towards 
the weak; that real independence, real liberty, cannot rest upon suf¬ 
ferance; that peace and liberty can be preserved only by the authority 
and observance of rules of national conduct founded upon the 
principles of justice and humanity; only by the establishment of law 
among nations, responsive to the enlightened public opinion of man¬ 
kind. To them liberty means not liberty for themselves alone, but 
for all who are oppressed. Justice means not justice for themselves 
alone, but a shield for all who are weak against the aggression of the 
strong. When their deeper natures are stirred they have a spiritual 
vision in which the spread and perfection of free self government 
shall rescue the humble who toil and endure, from the hideous wrongs 
inflicted upon them by ambition and lust for power, and they cherish 
in their heart of hearts an ideal of their country loyal to the mission 
of liberty for the lifting up of the oppressed and bringing in the rule 
of righteousness and peace. 

To this people, the invasion of Belgium brought a shock of 
amazement and horror. The people of Belgium were peaceable, in¬ 
dustrious, law abiding, self governing and free. They had no quarrel 
with anyone on earth. They were attacked by overwhelming military 
power; their country was devastated by fire and sword; they were 
slain by tens of thousands; their independence was destroyed and 
their liberty was subjected to the rule of an invader, for no other 
cause than that they defended their admitted rights. There was no 


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question of fact; there was no question of law; there was not a 
plausible pretense of any other cause. The admitted rights of Bel¬ 
gium stood in the way of a mightier nation’s purpose; and Belgium 
was crushed. When the true nature of these events was realized, the 
people of the United States did not hesitate in their feeling or in 
their judgment. Deepest sympathy with downtrodden Belgium and 
stern condemnation of the invader were practically universal. Where- 
ever there was respect for law, it revolted against the wrong done 
to Belgium. Wherever there was true passion for liberty, it blazed 
out for Belgium. Wherever there was humanity, it mourned for 
Belgium. As the realization of the truth spread, it carried a vague 
feeling that not merely sentiment but loyalty to the eternal principles 
of right was involved in the attitude of the American people. And it 
was so, for if the nations were to be indifferent to this first great 
concrete case for a century of military power trampling under foot 
at will the independence, the liberty and the life of a peaceful and un¬ 
offending people in repudiation of the faith of treaties and the law of 
nations and of morality and of humanity—if the public opinion of the 
world was to remain silent upon that, neutral upon that, then all talk 
about peace and justice and international law and the rights of man, 
the progress of humanity and the spread of liberty is idle patter— 
mere weak sentimentality; then opinion is powerless and brute force 
rules and will rule the world. If no difference is recognized between 
right and wrong, then there are no moral standards. There come 
times in the lives of nations as of men when to treat wrong as if it 
were right is treason to the right. 

The American*people were entitled not merely to feel but to 
speak concerning the wrong done to Belgium. It was not like inter¬ 
ference in the internal affairs of Mexico or any other nation, for 
this was an international wrong. The law protecting Belgium which 
was violated was our law and the law of every other civilized country. 
For generations we had been urging on and helping in its develop¬ 
ment and establishment. We had spent our efforts and our money 
to that end. In legislative resolution and executive declaration and 
diplomatic correspondence and special treaties and international con¬ 
ferences and conventions we had played our part in conjunction with 
other civilized countries in making that law. We had bound our¬ 
selves by it; we had regulated our conduct by it; and we were entitled 
to have other nations observe it. That law v/as the protection of 
our peace and security. It was our safeguard against the necessity 
of maintaining great armaments and wasting our substance in con¬ 
tinual readiness for war. Our interest in having it maintained as the 
law of nations was a substantial, valuable, permanent interest, just 


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as real as your interest and mine in having maintained and enforced 
the laws against assault and robbery and arson which protect our per- 
sonal safety and property. Moreover, that law was written into & 
solemn and formal convention, signed and ratified by Germany and 
Belgium and France and the United States in whoch those other 
countries agreed with us that the law should be observed. When 
Belgium was invaded that agreement was binding not only morally 
but strictly and technically, because there was then no nation a party 
to the war which was not also a party to the convention. The in¬ 
vasion of Belgium was a breach of contract with us for the main¬ 
tenance of a law of nations which was the protection of our peace, 
and the interest which sustained the contract justified an objection 
to its breach. There was no question here of interfering in the quar¬ 
rels of Europe. We had a right'to be neutral and we were neutral 
as to the quarrel between Germany and France, but when as an in¬ 
cident to the prosecution of that quarrel Germany broke the law which 
we were entitled to have preserved, and which she had agreed with 
us to preserve, we were entitled to be heard in the assertion of our 
own national right. With the right to speak came responsibility, 
and with responsibility came duty—duty of government towards all 
the peaceful men and women in America not to acquiesce in the 
destruction of the law which protected them, for if the world assents 
to this great and signal violation of the law of nations, then the law 
of nations no longer exists and we have no protection save in sub¬ 
serviency or in force. And with the right to speak there came to- 
this, the greatest of neutral nations, the greatest of free democracies 
another duty to the cause of liberty and justice for which America 
stands; duty to the ideals of America’s nobler nature; duty to the 
honor of her past and the hopes of her future; for this law was a 
bulwark of peace and justice to the world; it was a barrier to the 
spread of war; it was a safeguard to the independence and liberty of 
all small, weak states. It marks the progress of civilization. If the 
world consents to its destruction the world turns backward towards 
savagery, and America’s assent would be America's abandonment of 
the mission of democracy. 

Yet the American Government acquiesced in the treatment of 
Belgium and the destruction of the law of nations. Without one 
word of objection or dissent to the repudiation of law or the breach 
of our treaty or the violation of justice and humanity in the treat¬ 
ment of Belgium, our government enjoined upon the people of the 
United States an undiscriminating and all-embracing neutrality, and 
the President admonished the people that they must be neutral in all 
respects in act and word and thought and sentiment. We were to be 


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not merely neutral as to the quarrels of Europe, but neutral as to 
the treatment of Belgium; neutral between right and wrong; neutral 
between justice and injustice; neutral between humanity and cruelty; 
neutral between liberty and oppression. Our govrnment did more 
than acquiesce, for in the first Lusitania note, with the unspeakable 
horrors of the conquest of Belgium still fresh in our minds, on the 
very day after the report of the Bryce Commission on Belgium atroc¬ 
ities, it wrote these words to the Government of Germany: 

“Recalling the humane and enlightened attitude 
“hitherto assumed by the Imperial German Govern- 
“ment in matters of international right, and particularly 
“with regard to the freedom of the seas, having learned 
“to recognize the Germany views and the German in- 
“fluence in the field of international obligation as al- 
“ways engaged upon the side of justice and humanity,” 
etc., etc. 

And so the Government of the United States appeared as approv¬ 
ing the treatment of Belgium. It misrepresented the people of the 
United States in that acquiescence and apparent approval. It was 
not necessary that the United States should go to war in defense 
of the violated law. A single official expression by the Government 
of the United States, a single sentence denying assent and recording 
disapproval of what Germany did in Belgium would have given to 
the people of America that leadership to which they were entitled in 
their earnest groping for the light. It would have ranged behind 
American leadership the conscience and morality of the neutral world. 
It would have brought to American diplomacy the respect and 
strength of loyalty to a great cause. But it was not to be. The 
American Government failed to rise to the demands of the great oc¬ 
casion. Gone were the old love of justice; the old passion for lib¬ 
erty; the old sympathy with the oppressed; the old ideals of an 
America helping the world towards a better future; and there re¬ 
mained in the eyes of mankind only solicitude for trade and profit and 
prosperity and wealth. 

The American Government could not really have approved the 
treatment of Belgium, but under a mistaken policy it shrank from 
speaking the truth. That vital error has carried into every effort of 
our diplomacy the weakness of a false position. Every note of re¬ 
monstrance against • interference with trade, or even against the 
destruction of life, has been projected against the background of 
an abandonment of the principles for which America once stood, and 
has been weakened by the popular feeling among the peoples of 





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Europe, whose hearts are lifted up by the impulses of patriotism and 
sacrifice, that America has become weak and sordid. 

Such policies as I have described are doubly dangerous in their 
effect upon foreign nations and in their effect at home. It is a mat¬ 
ter of universal experience that a weak and apprehensive treatment of 
foreign affairs invites encroachments upon rights and leads to situa¬ 
tions in which it is difficult to prevent war, while a firm and frank 
policy at the outset prevents difficult situations from arising and 
tends most strongly to preserve peace. On the other hand, if a 
government is to be strong in its diplomacy, its own people must 
be ranged in its support by leadership of opinion in a national cause 
worthy to awaken their patriotism and devotion. 

We have not been following the path of peace. We have been 
blindly stumbling along the road that continued will lead to inevitable 
war. Our diplomacy has dealt with symptoms and ignored causes. 
The great decisive question upon which our peace depends, is the 
question whether the rule of action applied to Belgium is to be 
tolerated. If it is tolerated by the civilized world, this nation will 
have to fight for its life. There will be no escape. That is the 
critical point of defense for the peace of America. 

When our government failed to tell the truth about Belgium, it 
lost the opportunity for leadership of the moral sense of the American 
people, and it lost the power which a knowledge of that leadership 
and a sympathetic response from the moral sense of the world would 
have given to our diplomacy. When our government failed to make 
any provision whatever for defending its rights in case they should 
be trampled upon, it lost the power which a belief in its readiness 
and will to maintain its rights would have given to its diplomatic 
representations. When our government gave notice to Germany that 
it would destroy American lives and American ships at its peril, 
our words, which would have been potent if sustained by adequate 
preparation to make them good, and by the prestige and authority of 
the moral leadership of a great people in a great cause, were treated 
with a contempt which should have been foreseen; and when our 
government failed to make those words good, its diplomacy was 
bankrupt. 

Upon the record of performance which I have tried to describe, 
will the American people say that the Democratic party is entitled to 
be continued in power. 

The defects of the present Administration arise from two distinct 
causes. The first is the temperament and training of the President. 
The second is the incapacity of the Democratic party as it is repre¬ 
sented in Washington both in the legislative and in the executive de- 


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partments either to originate wise policies or to follow them when 
proposed by others or to administer them effectively if they are es¬ 
tablished. The Democrats in Congress are never controlled except 
with a club, and government with a club is always spasmodic and 
defective. 

These characteristics will not change; President Wilson cannot 
change his nature; the Democratic party will not change the char¬ 
acter of its representatives; and there is no escape from having the 
same causes of weakness which have controlled our government for 
the last three years continued in the future except the withdrawal of 
power from the Democratic party. We must not deceive ourselves 
by assuming that the critical period arising from the great war has 
passed. The real dangers and the real tests of the strength of our 
institutions lie before us. The most exacting demands upon the wis¬ 
dom, the spirit, and the courage of our country are still to be made. 
In this great conflict all forms of government are on trial, democracy 
with the rest. The principles of national morality are on trial. We 
must play our part in the universal trial whether we will or no, for 
upon the result depends directly the question whether our republic 
can endure. It cannot endure upon wealth alone. Its life is the spirit 
of free self government, and if the light of that spirit be quenched in 
the world the American republic will disintegrate and fall. 

But what are the people to expect if the Republican party is re¬ 
stored to power? 

This much we can say now: 

They may expect with confidence, that their government will 
meet the economic situation with which we must deal immediately 
upon the close of the war, with a policy of moderate but adequate 
protection to American industry, based upon ascertained and estab¬ 
lished facts, and inspired by sympathy with all honest American enter¬ 
prise and a desire for the prosperity and happiness of Americans of 
every calling and in every state. 

They may expect that the government will be administered with 
the honesty and efficiency which have marked Republican adminis¬ 
trations in the past, in the interest of no section or class, but for the 
interest of the nation as a wiiole and in every part. 

They may expect that the best possible course for the preserva¬ 
tion of peace will be followed by a foreign policy which, with courtesy 
and friendliness to all nations, is frank and fearless and honest in its 
assertion of American rights, and leaves no doubt anywhere in the 
world of America’s purpose and courage to protect and defend her 
independence, her territory and the lives and just rights of her citizen* 
under the law of nations. 


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They may expect that their government will stand for full and 
adequate preparation by the American people for their own defense. 
The Republican party loves peace and hates war; it abhors and will 
never submit to military domination; but it is composed of men who 
love our country and who deem that the independence, the liberty, 
the honor and the opportunity of the American democracy are not 
merely to be talked about with weak and flabby sentiment, but are to 
be maintained and safeguarded by the practical power of a virile and 
patriotic people. It is clear sighted enough to see that preparation 
for defense must have due relation to the possibilities of attack; that 
under the conditions of modern warfare much preparation must be 
made before a possible attack, or all preparation will be impossible 
after the attack. The Republican party stands for a citizenship made 
competent by training to perform the freeman’s duty of defense for 
his country. It stands for a regular army no larger than is necessary 
but as large as is necessary to serve as a first line, a nucleus, a source 
of instruction and of administration for the army of American citizens 
who may be called upon to defend their country. And the Repub¬ 
lican party stands for the gospel of patriotic service to our country 
by every citizen according to his ability in peace and in war. It 
stands for a reawakening of American patriotism. It is not content 
that while the people of other lands are rendering the last full measure 
of devotion in sacrifice and suffering and dying for their countries, 
America shall remain alone dull to the call of country and satisfied 
in the comforts and pleasures of prosperity. 

They may expect that assured readiness for defense will give 
power to our diplomacy in the maintenance of peace. 

They may expect that the power and will of a united people to 
defend their country will prevent the application to our peaceful and 
prosperous land of the hateful doctrine that among nations might 
makes right, regardless of the rules of justice and humanity. 

They may expect that the manifest, potential strength and com¬ 
petency of the nation will maintain the effectiveness and reality of that 
great policy of national safety which in the declaration of President 
Monroe forbade the destruction of our security by the establishment 
of hostile military powers in our neighborhood. 

They may expect that their government will not forget, but will 
ever maintain, the principles of American freedom, the duties of 
America to the peace and progress of the world, and those ideals of 
liberty and justice for all mankind which above all else make the 
true greatness of the American democracy. 


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ELECTION OF TEMPORARY SECRETARIES. 

The Chairman recognized the gentleman from Seneca, Mr. 
Gould, who offered the following resolution: 

Resolved, That Lafayette B. Gleason be elected Temporary 
Secretary of this Convention, and that Benjamin Bulmer, Henry 
Seilheimer, George M. Shotwell and John Boyle, Jr., be elected As¬ 
sistant Temporary Secretaries. Which resolution was adopted. 

TEMPORARY RULES OF THE CONVENTION. 

The Chairman recognized the gentleman from Oswego, Mr. 
Sweet, who offered the following resolution: 

Resolved , That the Rules of the Assembly be adopted as the 
Temporary Rules of this Convention, so far as the same are applica¬ 
ble, provided, however, that a minority report from the Committee 
may be presented, and when so presented it shall be considered. 
Which resolution was adopted. 

REFERENCE OF RESOLUTIONS. 

The Chairman recognized the gentleman from Erie, Mr Crane, 
who offered the following resolution: 

Resolved, That all resolutions be referred to the Committee on 
Resolutions without debate. Which resolution was adopted. 

RESOLUTION OF THE COMMITTEE ON CREDENTIALS. 

The Chairman recognized the gentleman from Bronx, Mr. 
Simonds, who offered the following resolution: 

Resolved, That a Committee on Credentials consisting of one 
Member from each Senatorial District be appointed by the chair, 
and that the Temporary Chairman of the Convention be a member 
ex-officio of said Committee. Which resolution was adopted. 

COMMITTEE ON PERMANENT ORGANIZATION. 

The Chair recognized the gentleman from Albany, Mr. Sage, 
who offered the following resolution: 

Resolved, That the Committee on Permanent Organization con¬ 
sisting of one Member from each Senatorial District be appointed 
by the Chair, and that the Temporary Chairman of the Convention be 


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a member ex-officio of said Committee. Which resolution was 
adopted. 


COMMITTEE ON. RESOLUTIONS. 

The Chair recognized the gentleman from New York, Mr. 
Nicholas Murray Butler, who offered the following resolution: 

Resolved, That a Committee on Resolutions consisting of one 
Member from each Senatorial District be appointed by the Chair, 
and that the Temporary Chairman of the Convention be a member 
ex-officio of said Committee. Which resolution was adopted. 

COMMITTEE ON DELEGATES TO THE NATIONAL 
CONVENTION. 

The Chair recognized the gentlemen from Monroe, Mr. Arget- 
singer, who offered the following resolution: 

Resolved, That a Committee to select Delegates-at-Large and 
Alternate Delegates-at-Large, to the National Convention to be sub¬ 
mitted to this Convention for recommendation for nomination at the 
Primaries, April 4th, 1916, consisting of one member from each Sena¬ 
torial District be appointed by the Chair, and that the Temporary 
Chairman of this Convention be a member ex-officio of said Com¬ 
mittee. Which resolution was adopted. 

COMMITTEE ON PETITIONS. 

The Chair recognized the gentleman from Kings, Mr. Livingston, 
who offered the following resolution: 

That a Committee on Petitions for the designation of the Can¬ 
didates for the office of Delegates-at-Large and Alternate Delegates- 
at-Large to the National Convention consisting of one Member from 
each Judicial District be appointed by the Chair. Which resolution 
was adopted. 

The Chairman of the Convention : In accordance with 

the custom, the representatives of the different Senate districts 
are understood to have handed to the Secretary of the Convention 
their respective choice for membership in the various committees 
which have been ordered by the Convention. If any have failed to 
hand up the names of the gentlemen by whom they wish their districts 
represented, they will be good enough to do so? The Secretary ad¬ 
vises the Chair that all of the districts have indicated their choice. 


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PROCEEDINGS OF THE 


The Chair appoints under the authority of the resolution the gentle¬ 
men named by the representatives of the respective districts, and the 
Secretary will read the names. 

(Names read by Secretary). 


Committees 



COMMITTEE 

ON < 

CREDENTIALS. 

1 

Alexander Mair 

27 

Frank J. Lefevre 

2 

Thomas F. Doyle 

28 

John _G. Malone 

3 

Richard Laimbeer 

29 

E. P. Mann 

4 

John Gaynor 

30 

Eugene R. Norton 

5 

Edward B. Valentine 

31 

Thomas W. Winnie 

6 

John T. Rafferty 

32 

C. Fred Boshart 

7 

George A. Owens 

33 

George Larte 

8 

Samuel A. Green 

34 

E. A. Everett 

9 

Robert Levy 

35 

Myron Stranahan 

10 

Samuel Gettlin 

36 

F. W. Bensberg 

11 

Michael Ball 

37 

Lynn C. Beebe 

12 

Frederick L. Marshall 

38 

D. Raymond Cobb 

13 

William L. Turner 

39 

A. C. Wyer 

14 

Frederick Scheide 

40 

Arthur E. Blauvelt 

15 

Gilchrist Stewart 

41 

H. H. Graham 

16 

Philip Hoefer 

42 

H. S. Fungan 

17 

Robert McC. Marsh 

43 

R. M. Praugen , 

18 

J. Leo Houligan 

44 

W. Duke 

19 

Rufus P. Johnston 

45 

Charles C. Schoen 

20 

Frank Birnbaum 

46 

A. J. Harradine 

21 

Frank K. Bowers 

47 

Paul E. Schaellkopf 

22 

A. B. Simonds 

48 

Harry Lamson 

23 

Gordon H. Peck 

49 

John T. Claris 

24 

Francis A. Winslow 

50 

Joseph Roenchild, Jr. 

25 

Jacob F. Robe 

51 

N. V. V. Franchot 

26 

Joseph F. Gangloff 




COMMITTEE ON PERMANENT ORGANIZATION. 

1 

Smith Cox 

5 

John Feitner 

2 

Vincent Kenner 

6 

Charles A. Schieren 

3 

Richard Laimbeer 

7 

Jesse D. Moore 

4 

Thomas B. Lineburgh 

8 

Robert H. Bosse 


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CONVENTION 


9 

J»cob Bartscherer 

31 

George A. Hill 

10 

Charles J. Moore 

32 

Harry J. Henry 

11 

Harry G. Fromberg 

33 

R. H. Severance 

12 

James E. March, Jr. 

34 

F. L. Seaker 

13 

Rocco Dellassandro 

35 

George H. Cobb 

14 

William Henkel 

36 

W. E. Lewis 

15 

Herman W. Beyer 

37 

M. E. Tallett 

16 

Joseph E. Nejedly 

38 

William Rubin 

17 

Beverly R. Robinson 

39 

Thomas MacCleary 

18 

Alexander Brough 

40 

George W. Benham 

19 

Frank Moss 

41 

Rodney G. Robinson 

20 

Jacob R. Schiff 

42 

H. H. Hardman 

21 

Charles L. Halberstadt 

43 

John S. Kennedy 

22 

James Hamilton 

44 

T. W. Larkin 

23 

George S. Scofield 

45 

Thomas B. Dunn 

24 

N. D. Steele 

46 

Henry G. Danforth 

25 

Joseph Roesch 

47 

James A. Balcom 

26 

John R. Yale 

48 

Henry Lamson 

27 

Harding Showers 

49 

Joseph Milewcyk 

28 

Henry M. Sage 

50 

George P. Urban 

29 

Alexander M. Diver 

51 

Gustave A. Lawson 

30 

Gelbut T. Seelye 




COMMITTEE ON DELEGATES-AT-LARGE AND ALTER¬ 


NATE DELEGATES-AT-LARGE TO THE 
NATIONAL CONVENTION. 


1 

Harry Lee 

19 

Moses M. McKee 

2 

Francis H. Luce 

20 

Samuel Krulewitch 

3 

William Boardman 

21 

William H. Ten Eyck 

4 

John Diemer 

22 

Richard W. Lawrence 

5 

Jacob Brenner 

23 

George Cromwell 

6 

Alfred E. Vass 

24 

William L. Ward 

7 

John McCrate 

25 

John B. Rose 

8 

Lewis M. Swasey 

26 

W. E. Hoysradt 

9 

William Schnitspan 

27 

Philip Elting 

10 

Jacob A. Livingston 

28 

William Barnes 

11 

Joseph Levinson 

29 

Hans Deal 

12 

Samuel S. Koenig 

30 

George H. Whitney 

13 

Benjamin S. Fox 

31 

W. Seward Hamlin 

14 

John S. Shea 

32 

W. B. Collins 

15 

Michael H. Blake 

33 

John F. O’Brien 

16 

William C. Hecht 

34 

B. H. Snell 

17 

Frederick C. Tanner 

35 

A. B. Parker 

18 

Albert J. Berwin 

36 

William S. Doolittle 



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PROCEEDINGS OF THE 


37 

George W. Fairchild 

45 

George F. Argetsinger 

38 

Willard A. Rill 

46 

John V. Mullan 

39 

H. D. Hinman 

47 

George F. Thompson 

40 

Norman J. Gould 

48 

James L. Crane 

41 

W. A. Smyth 

49 

Elmer E. Harris 

42 

Riley A. Wilson 

50 

Percy S. Lansdowne 

43 

Jesse S. Phillips 

51 

Charles M. Hamilton. 

44 

J. E. Nash 




COMMITTEE 

on : 

RESOLUTIONS. 

1 

Thomas A. McWhinney 

27 

William E. Thorpe 

2 

Robert Wilson 

28 

Rollin B. Sanford 

3 

A. M. White 

29 

Harry A. Lewis 

4 

George Marshall 

30 

Charles O. Pratt 

5 

Charles S. Devoy 

31 

Fox Sponable 

6 

William A. Prendergast 

32 

D. F. Strobel 

7 

Richard Wright 

33 

James A. Emerson 

8 

F. J. H. Kracke 

34 

N. M. Marshall 

9 

Robert R. Lawson 

35 

T. C. Sweet 

10 

Jacob A. Friedman 

36 

Richard R. Martin 

11 

Alexander Wolf 

37 

Bert Lord 

12 

John A. Sleicher 

38 

Edward Schoeneck 

13 

George W. Wickersham 

39 

C. Mossman McLean 

14 

- Henry L. Stimson 

40 

James F. Tobin 

15 

Charles D. Hilles 

41 

H. C. C. Mandeville 

16 

Isidor Wasservogel 

42 

H. E. Wheeler 

17 

Herbert Parsons 

43 

Charles D. Newton 

18 

Nicholas Murray Butler 

44 

Frank R. Utter 

19 

Collin H. Woodward 

45 

David Jayne Hill 

20 

Ogden L. Mills 

46 

Robert Tate 

21 

Samuel T. Cool 

47 

S. Wallace Dempsey 

22 

Ernest W. Bradbury 

48 

John Lord O’Brian 

23 

Mortimer B. Patterson 

49 

Charles B .Sears 

24 

George A. Slater 

50 

George P. Urban 

25 

Frederick W. Wilson 

51 

George E. Spring. 

26 

Sanford W. Smith 




COMMITTEE ANNOUNCEMENTS. 

The Secretary of the Convention : 

The Committee on Delegates will meet tomorrow, Wednesday morn¬ 
ing, at 9.30, in the parlor of the Republican Club. The Committee on 
Resolutions will meet on the platform in this hall immediately after 


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adjournment for purposes of organization. The Committee on Per¬ 
manent Organization will meet on the platform immediately after adjourn¬ 
ment. The Committee on Credentials will meet on the platform imme¬ 
diately after adjournment. 

The Chair recognized the gentleman from Albany, Mr. Sage, who 
moved that the Convention stand in recess until n o’clock A. M., 
Wednesday. 

CHAIRMAN ROOT: Mr. Sage moves that the Convention adjourn 
until ii o’clock tomorrow morning. All in favor say Aye, contrary No. 
Motion is agreed to. 

Adjourned until February 16, 1916, at 11 o’clock A. M. 


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Tuesday, February 16, 1916 


CONVENTION MET PURSUANT TO ADJOURNMENT AT 
CARNEGIE HALL, NEW YORK CITY, FEBRUARY 16, 1916, AT 
11 O’CLOCK A. M. 

CHAIRMAN ROOT: Gentlemen, this Convention cannot go on 
until the Secretary, Mr. Gleason, comes, and in the meantime I hope 
we can hear for a few minutes the cheerful and well-remembered 
voice of our honored and beloved friend, Chauncey Depew. 
(Applause.) 

HON. CHAUNCEY M. DEPEW: Mr. Chairman and Gentlemen of 
the Convention: I would not have been here on this platform and have 
met your enthusiastic call, except that no Republican who had the chance 
anywhere in this hall, would have failed to avail himself of it, to con¬ 
gratulate your Chairman upon the greatest Republican speech which has 
been made in a generation. (Applause.) I have been hearing keynote 
speeches during the whole sixty years I have been on the platform. 
Whenever, at the beginning of a gubernatorial or of a Presidential canvass, 
a State Convention is held, the Chairman is said to make a keynote 
speech. Most of them would not unlock anything (laughter), but the 
speech that was made here last night, in the present condition of public 
sentiment in this country, in the present peril in which'we are in, in our 
domestic affairs and our foreign affairs for the future, the speech that 
was made here last night will unlock the hearts and unlock the judg¬ 
ments of the American people to see the truth. (Applause.) A new 
thing has happened, which I have never known before in my long experi¬ 
ence in public life. I knew Mr. Lincoln very well, and it did not happen 
in his time. I have known them, all the way down through Grant and 
Garfield and the rest of them, and it did not happen in their time. A 
'brand new thing. It is to send an unauthorized diplomatic representative 
abroad, for a purpose unknown to the Constitution and guessed at by the 
newspapers. (Laughter.) Now, precisely why is this gentleman, Col. 
House, who, in his bosom and under his hat is the only man who carries 
Presidential secrets—why is he sent abroad? I remember—just oc¬ 
curring to me—is Gleason coming? (Laughter.) 

VOICES: Go on, go on. 

I remember in Mr. Lincoln's time he sent abroad for the purpose of 
purchasing munitions, a well-known manufacturer of munitions at that 
time, Marcellus Hartley, and Marcellus Hartley went abroad to buy 

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munitions from neutral nations, under a commission from Abraham 
Lincoln. Now, we are told that it is unneutral to manufacture munitions 
to sell to any nation, but he was not the only one who went abroad. 
Abraham S. Hewitt, who was a Democrat, was sent abroad, and Hewitt 
told me this story. He said that he went to a gun factory, and imme¬ 
diately they saw the necessity of the United States they put the price of 
guns up five times. He could not do otherwise than agree to the propo¬ 
sition, but he called together that night the leaders of all the unions 
there were in that gun factory. The manufacture of gun metal was a 
secret, not known in the United States, and Mr. Hewitt said to these 
leaders: “Now, boys, if you will tell me the secret of the manufacture 
of gun metal, I will tell you a secret where you can double your wages.” 
They said, “Agreed.” “Well,” said Hewitt, being a Yankee, “tell me 
first.” (Laughter.) So they revealed to him (for the secret was in the 
hands of a good many in the different departments) the whole secret of 
the manufacture of gun metal, by which the United States could make 
its- own guns. Then they said, “Now, Mr. Yankee, what are you going 
to tell us to double our wages?” “Well,” he said, “I have given an 
order here for more guns than can be manufactured in the next year, 
and your bosses have put up the price five times above the normal. 
Strike; you can get what you want.” (Laughter). Well, now, that 
is the only time that I remember in the history of the country or in 
any Administration when unauthorized agents were sent abroad, ex¬ 
cept now. Now, why was Col. House sent abroad? The New York 
World, a great newspaper, is the only custodian of the secrets of the 
administration, (laughter) and the New York World said, in an 
illuminating editorial that the Colonel went abroad for the purpose 
of giving to our representatives in Europe, who have been so iso¬ 
lated that they are almost become part of the various nations where 
they are accredited—to give them the atmosphere of the White 
House. (Laughter.) Now, how did Col. House carry that? 
(Laughter.) It must have been encompassed in steel capsules, and 
he took the cap off whenever he got into the Chancelory of our Am¬ 
bassador to England, or our Ambassador to France, or our Ambas¬ 
sador to Germany, opened the capsule and let out the atmosphere, 
surcharged with the perfume of orange blossoms. (Laughter.) 
Well, gentlemen, I congratulate you upon this meeting, the first in 
this Presidential year. I congratulate you upon your Chairman. I 
congratulate you upon the successor who is to be your Chairman, 
but I congratulate you above all other things that we enter this can¬ 
vass, the most importance since the Civil War, with a platform pre¬ 
pared for us by the ablest living statesmen of either party that there 
is in the United States. (Applause.) 




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CHAIRMAN ROOT: It is moved that this Republican mass 
meeting express its thanks and effectionate appreciation to Senator 
Depew, for the delightful speech with which he has entertained us. 
All in favor of the motion will say Aye, contrary No. It is unani¬ 
mously adopted. 

REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE ON CREDENTIALS. 

The Chair recognizes the gentleman from Bronx, Mr. Simonds. 

MR. SIMONDS: Mr. Chairman, the Committee on Credentials 
direct me to report that no contests have been filed with the Com¬ 
mittee, and to recommend that the temporary roll be made the per¬ 
manent roll of the Convention. 

THE CHAIRMAN: Gentlemen, you have heard the report of 
the Committee on Credentials. Those in favor of its adoption say 
“Aye”. The report was adopted. 

REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE ON PERMANENT 
ORGANIZATION. 

The Chair recognizes the gentlemen from Albany, Mr. Sage. 

MR. SAGE: Mr. Chairman, on behalf of the Committee on Per¬ 
manent Organization, I offer the following report, and move its 
adoption. The Committee on Permanent Organization recommend 
as Permanent Chairman, Honorable James W. Wadsworth* jr., (ap¬ 
plause) and as Vice Presidents and Secretaries the following: 


VICE PRESIDENTS. 


1 

Wm. D. Guthrie 

15 

John W. Noble 

2 

Walter B. Stanley 

16 

Bernard Colle 

3 

D. Harry Rolston 

17 

Thos. Guilfoyle 

4 

Charles B. Morton 

18 

Charles E. Heydt 

5 

George A. Voss 

19 

Marcus M. Marks 

6 

Henry E. Chapman 

20 

Morris Levy 

7 

F. F. Williams 

21 

Bernard Hahn 

8 

John Keller 

22 

Edw. H. Healy 

9 

Otto Muhlbauer 

23 

Wm. A. Serven 

10 

Geo. Odell 

24 

G. I. Roberts 

11 

Louis Jacobson 

25 

John B. Corwin 

12 

Louis J. Schwartz 

26 

James E. Towner 

13 

Oscar W. Eberhorn 

27 

Chas. W. Walton 

14 

Martin Steinthal 

28 

John H. Rea 



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29 G. Alfred Cluett 

30 James S. Parker 

31 Howard Vosburgh 

32 J. Reach 

33 George R. Heyworth 

34 Warren T. Thayer 

35 N. B. Smith 

36 Stuart Townsend 

37 F. R. Lennox 

38 L. A. Saxer 

39 Claire Whittaker 

40 Rollin E. Wright 


41 C. N. Hammond 

42 F. W. Griffith 

43 William E. Dana 

44 L. A. Walker 

45 George W. Todd 

46 Thomas C. Gordon 

47 John B. Boardwell 

48 Michael Ullrich 

49 Valentine A. Truskyowski 

50 Asher B. Emery 

51 George L. Maltby. 


SECRETARY. 
Lafayette B. Gleason. 


ASSISTANT SECRETARIES. 


Benjamin Bulmer Henry 

John 

1 Henry P. Tuthill 

2 Frank E. Hulbert 

3 John S. Armstrong 

4 William A. Griffiths 

5 Samuel Greason, Jr. 

6 H. Murray La Mont 

7 Martin Keller 

8 David E. Kembo 

9 Charles Springer 

10 A. J. McGreggor 

11 Lester M. Friedman 

12 James E. March, Jr. 

13 Frank Popino 

14 Edward Doonan 

15 William J. Rogers 

16 Henry Ottes 

17 William W. Hoppin 

18 Martin Bourke 

19 Robert S. Conklin 

20 Benjamin Swartz 

21 John H. Nichols 

22 J. Clifford McChristie 


Seilheimer George M. Shotwell 

Boyle, Jr. 

23 E. J. Lovett 

24 Charles D. Millard 

25 M. J. McGibbon 

26 James A. Lavery 

27 Harcourt J. Pratt 

28 James E. Huested 

29 Forman Caird 

30 Wyman S. Bascon 

31 B. R. Corey 

32 Clive Hollebeck 

33 R. H. Kenyon 

34 Joseph Fell 

35 W. A. Mather 

36 Garrey A. Willard 

37 W. L. Morris 

38 J. Dan Ackerman 

39 A. B. Shaw 

40 William L. Sivert 

41 E. S. Hanford 

42 C. C. Sackett 

43 R. B. Oldfield 

44 L. H. Wells 


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45 

Herman C. Thiem 

49 

Peter C. Jeweski 

46 

W. D. Horstman 

50 

Henry Seilheimer 

47 

Allan V. Parker 

51 

Charles M. Schumaker 

48 

Richard Humphrey 




The Chairman put the question on agreeing with the report, and 
it was unanimously adopted. 

The Chair appointed the gentleman from Kings, Mr. Calder, and 
the gentleman from Jefferson, Mr. Brown, a Committee to escort the 
Permanent Chairman to the Chair. 

SENATOR ROOT: I have the honor and the pleasure to pre¬ 
sent your Permanent Chairman, Senator Wadsworth. (Applause.) 

(Address of Permanent Chairman). 

It is highly proper and commendable that the Republicans of the 
greatest state of the Union should, with emphasis and sincerity, ex¬ 
press themselves with respect to the situation which confronts the 
country. The United States faces one of the most critical periods in 
its history. The conduct of the Government and the sentiment of the 
people as exercised and expressed during the next four years may 
very well determine the destiny of the Republic for a century to come. 
The American people have an intense desire that their children and 
their children’s children shall thrive and prosper and that the pur¬ 
pose of the nation, declared by its founders and maintained for 
nearly 140 years, shall live undisturbed amongst the generations to 
come. Furthermore, they have an intense realization of the fact 
that the nation cannot thus continue to thrive and hold true to its 
purpose unless it commands the respect and admiration of mankind. 
In short, they know that during this period when the institutions of 
the old world appear to be crumbling and disintegrating, that the 
institutions, which have made us what we are, may likewise be threat¬ 
ened if all is not well with the Government. Never, since the Civil 
War, have we been in such dire need of far-seeing wisdom and 
strength at Washington. It is not surprising, therefore, that men and 
women all over this broad land are thinking, and thinking very deep¬ 
ly about their country and its future. It will not do for any great 
political party to approach the discussion that is coming in a hap-, 
hazard or triflng manner. It will not do to appeal to prejudice or passion, 
whether racial or sectional. That road and that rickity vehicle lead 
to destruction. We Republicans intend to insist that the people of 
the United States do indeed constitute a nation and that their welfare 
and the honor and dignity of this great nation amongst the peoples of 
all the world shall be the only question at issue. And while we are 
insisting upon this vital contention, we will invite our fellow citizens 


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to judge of the soundness of our principles and the ability of our 
party to put them into operation in the interests of the country. 
And we will further invite our fellow citizens to judge of the sound¬ 
ness and* competency of our opponents who, for nearly four years, 
have been charged with the responsibility of government and who, 
today, are halting and hesitating, impelled by no common purpose, 
trifling with little things, working for picayune advantages, compre¬ 
hending nothing that is great and vital, helplessly adrift in a ship 
which bears the destinies of America. 

It is not pleasant to realize at a time like this that the Govern¬ 
ment is running behind in its finances many thousands of dollars 
per day. It is not pleasant to regard the condition of the Treasury, 
whose reserve fund, in spite of tricky and misleading bookkeeping 
methods as displayed in daily statements of the Treasury balance, is 
conceded to be in a precarious condition. It is a cause for dismay 
that the party in power in Congress has no program, worthy of the 
name, for replenishing the Treasury and, at the same time, intends 
to do in this Congress just what it did in the last Congress: namely, 
spend more money than ever before. 

The spectacle presented in Mexico has brought the blush of 
shame to our cheeks, and has done infinite harm all over the world 
to the dignity and rights of American citizenship. With cold, cruel 
facts staring them in the face they have no plan for the adequate 
military defence of the country and, while they are attempting to 
reach some conclusion on this great question, their leader is display¬ 
ing his agitation, his uncertainty, blowing hot and blowing cold. 
The men in power at Washington today and who are responsible for 
what has taken place, and what bids fair to take place, seem unwill¬ 
ing or unable to look ahead. They seem utterly lacking in vision and 
in comprehension. 

As an example, let us consider what the Democratic Senate has 
done and what the Democratic House and the Democratic President 
apparently intend to do. After nearly four years of patient and cour¬ 
ageous effort and at a great cost in lives and money, peace and order 
were finally established in the Philippines in the year 1902. For 
nearly fourteen years now we have devoted our efforts toward 
educating and training the inhabitants of those islands to a higher 
conception of liberty and self-government, with a view that event- 
nally they might be able to stand on their own feet as a nation. No 
student of the evolution of races and social institutions will deny the 
assertion that the time required to elevate a comparatively uncivil¬ 
ized and illiterate people to the point at which they can govern them¬ 
selves without a sustaining hand must be measured, not by years or 


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decades, but by generations. No person familiar with the history 
and habit of thought of the Philippine people will dare to assert that 
they can survive as a separate nationality today. The whole world 
knows that such a thing is impossible and the whole world has ap¬ 
plauded the generous and unselfish purpose of the American people 
to stand by the helpless Philippino until he can stand alone. Thor¬ 
ough and unselfish as our work has been up to date, we cannot assert 
that we have done anything more than to start them upon the road. 
To leave them now to their own devices amounts to a sacrifice of 
everything we have done there and must result, not only in their 
destruction as a potential nation, but also in bringing down upon our 
heads the derision and contempt of the world. And yet, it is this 
very thing that the present Democratic Administration is about to 
do. In less than four years, so their bill, which has already passed 
the Senate, reads the Philippine people, largely illiterate, divided into 
many tribes, speaking many dialects, utterly lacking in a common 
language or literature, poor in purse, defenseless against aggression 
—this Philippine people is to be turned adrift without a guiding hand 
or protecting influence. We believe that the American people will 
stand aghast at this heartless and cynical proposal of the Democratic 
Administration. When one considers the reputation of the United 
States amongst the nations of the world one is the more dismayed at 
what the Government is contemplating at this time. It is not a 
pleasant thing to admit, but it should be admitted and thoroughly 
understood, that America does not enjoy in the foreign mind that de¬ 
gree of respect and admiration to which she is entitled. Rightly 
or wrongly, other people regard us today as lacking in determina¬ 
tion, lacking in virility, shrinking from those responsibilities and 
obligations which must come to every great nation. The for¬ 
eigner finds it difficult to read the heart of the American people; he 
can only judge from surface indications. He has witnessed, what to 
him seems the utter indifference of the American Government toward 
the killing of Americans by the score and the destruction of their 
property at wholesale in Mexico. And now, as if to confirm this 
unjust and wicked estimate of our national spirit, This Democratic 
Administration is about to notify the world that our great task in 
the Philippines is to be abandoned; that we do not care what hap¬ 
pens to the Philippino people. Furthermore, this Democratic Ad¬ 
ministration is about*to serve notice that the American soldiers who 
died for the liberties of the Philippine people, just as their brothers 
in arms died for the liberties of the people of Cuba, gave their lives 
in vain. The spirit of the American people is not in accord with such 
a cruel and cowardly procedure and it will impel them to resent 
this act. 


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The supporters of the present Administration are attempting to 
delude the people into a belief that whatever prosperity we are en¬ 
joying today is due to the wisdom of their enactments affecting the 
industries of the country. The people, however, are not deceived in 
this matter. They remember well the state of affairs which existed 
all over the land just prior to August first, 1914. They remember well the 
great number of unemployed applying for help and for work at the 
offices of every charity organization in the land. They remember well the 
factories that were closed, the wages that were reduced and the 
consequent decrease in the purchasing power of the people as a re¬ 
sult of the Underwood Tariff law, which subjected our industries to 
the destructive competition of cheap foreign labor. No man, be he 
manufacturer, farmer or workingman, has forgotten that situation. 
In an equal degree, too, they realize that that situation would have 
continued with constantly increasing intensity had it not been for 
the outbreak and continuance of the great war in Europe which 
forced the belligerent nations to call upon the United States for 
an enormous volume of exports far exceeding our highest records in 
that respect. The farmer today, who is receiving $1.20 a bushel for 
his wheat as contrasted with fifty cents a bushel in June and July, 
1914; the artizen who is receiving the highest wages known in the 
history of business realize perfectly well that this great impetus, 
which has come to many of our industries, is caused by this export 
trade. The history of wages and prices since August first, 1914, and 
the figures of that trade are eloquent with proof. If we compare the 
export of staple articles of commerce from the United States for the 
first eight months of 1915, all of them “war” months, with the ex¬ 
ports of the same atricles for the first eight months of 1914, all but 
one of them “peace” months, we find some astonishing increases. 
The exports of corn increased by 688 per cent., the exports of wheat 
by 265 per cent., of flour by 210 per cent., hay by 490 per cent., hides 
by 180 per cent., meat and dairy products by 213 per cent., live 
animals, cattle, horses, mules, sheep and swine, by 2,521 per cent., au¬ 
tomobiles by 313 per cent., manufacturers of cotton by 157 per cent., 
manufacturers of iron and steel by 151 per cent., manufacutrers of 
leather, including harness and boots and shoes, Ty 413 per cent., 
manufactured woolen goods by 721 per cent. The sum total in dol¬ 
lars of these same articles exported in the first eight months of 1914 
was $398,087,191; the sum total of these same articles exported in 
the first eight months of 1915 was $968,811,731; and the average per 
centage of increase was 527 per cent. This is the source of what 
prosperity we have today. It is not a psychological condition; it is 
not a state of mind; it is not the Underwood Tariff law; it is not a 


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t 

policy established by the present Administration which has brought 
this about. It is the war, and nothing but the war. Furthermore, 
were it not for this war, we would today be in the depths of the 
blackest kind of industrial depression. 

Just as the American people realize that many of our industries 
are abnormally and artificially stimulated, so also do they realize that 
when the war comes to an end, these same industries must collapse 
and that the conditions of the early summer of 1914, dreadful as they 
were, must be restored. And they know, too, that our whole indus¬ 
trial fabric will then be called upon to withstand an attack such as it 
has never suffered before. When that time comes, if the Democratic 
Tariff law remains upon the statute books, all of those great indus¬ 
trial nations, whose energies are now devoted exclusively to the 
waging of war, will transfer their every effort organized and con¬ 
centrated to an extent never before attained, to a rehabilitation and 
restoration of their suspended industries. Millions of soldiers will 
leave the trenches and go to work in the factories of Europe with an 
eagerness and avidity and concentration of purpose which will astound 
the neutral nations. The goods which they will manufacture must 
be sold and most of them, when that time comes, must be sold abroad 
in order to bring back into those countries the gold of which they have 
been drained and to re-establish at any cost their worldwide trade 
which, to a considerable degree, has been suspended. Their greatest 
and most inviting market will be the United States. At this time we 
will be the only nation possessing the wealth with which to buy and, 
furthermore, if the Underwood law remains upon the statute books, 
our gates will be left wide open, inviting and welcoming invasion. It 
will not do for the spokesmen of this Administration to say that we 
can prevent the dumping of cheap goods into our ports, by the setting 
up of rules and regulations governing invoices furnished by Amer¬ 
ican consuls in foreign countries. Everyone knows that our Govern¬ 
ment is without power to fix or control the price at which the foreign 
manufacturer offers his goods for sale in this country. .Any such 
suggestion is idle talk and illustrates once more the incompetence of 
the Democratic party to comprehend a great industrial fact. We 
hear much discussion and advocacy of a proper military defence of 
the United States against a war of aggression. It is a healthy dis¬ 
cussion and the Republican party is sincerely in sympathy with this 
vitally important movement. And this party insists that along with 
military measures, the nation must prepare itself industrially for the 
peace which is to come. But we declare that the only instrument 
for such defence and the only barrier which can check this inevi- 




REPUBLICAN STATE CONVENTION 


table invasion and save our whole industrial life from utter-destruc¬ 
tion is a protective tariff. 

There is something^ vastly more important in this issue than 
merely the material prosperity of the people. Our consideration of 
it should not stop at the dollars and cents phase. Money and prop¬ 
erty are but evidences of certain kinds of progress; they do not tell 
the whole story. Thet all important thing to find, to establish and 
to maintain is the happiness of a people. We hold it as an axiom that 
no people can be genuinely happy unless they are employed at use¬ 
ful occupations. Employment means opportunity for progress and 
development. Without it no man can proceed upward toward his 
aspirations; without it no man can lay out his scheme of life, establish 
his ideals and work towards them. It is not a proper function of gov¬ 
ernment according to the American conception, to direct the indi¬ 
vidual in his choice of a life work; it is a high function of government 
to legislate so as to leave the way along which through employment, 
the individual desires to proceed unobstructed. It is its function and 
duty to give him a free choice and then, when he has made it* to 
protect him in his legitimate occupation. Only by recognition of this 
fundamental truth can the Government guarantee, insofar as it is 
humanely possible, the happiness of a people. Modern society as¬ 
pires, acting through the government which has created to smooth 
the road for those, who through no fault of their own, are stagger¬ 
ing under heavy burdens. It must falter and fail utterly in that com¬ 
mendable effort if the members of society are without employment, 
and instead of progress there must follow confusion of ideas, discon¬ 
tent, restlessness and, eventually, bitterness against those institu¬ 
tions in which society takes its greatest pride. A political party can¬ 
not successfully manage the affairs of a nation unless it thoroughly 
understands this great truth and has a mind and a heart big enough 
and brave to cherish and protect the happiness of millions of people. 
It is because the Republican party understands these things, it is 
because the Republican party has insisted and always will insist that 
the happiness of the people of the United States, regardless of sec¬ 
tional lines or racial divisions, must be conserved and protected, that 
it enters this great contest, confident that the discriminating judg¬ 
ment of the people will not only bring to it a victory, but also the 
opportunity to perform a signal and vital service to the Republic. 

REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE ON RESOLUTIONS. 

The Chair recognized the Gentlemen from New York, Mr. But¬ 
ler, who read the report of the Committee on Resolutions, which was 
adopted as follows: 


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THE PLATFORM. 

The Republican Party in New York, speaking through its rep¬ 
resentatives in a Convention advisory to the enrolled voters, declares 
its purpose to conduct, with full confidence of success, a vigorous 
and constructive campaign on behalf of the great principles of gov¬ 
ernment and of social order for which it has stood from the begin¬ 
ning of its history. 

We pledge ourselves to the support of a patriotic and forward¬ 
facing Americanism. The Republican Party stands for American 
principles of government; for the full rights and privileges of Amer¬ 
ican citizenship; for the defense of America and Americans against 
attack from any quarter whatsoever; for the welfare of American 
business and for the protection of American labor; but above all 
for those enduring principles of national honor, of liberty, of justice, 
and of fidelity to national obligations, through adherence to which 
the nation has grown great. It believes in the truth of Washington’s 
declaration that the name of America which belongs to us in our 
national capacity, must always exalt the just pride of patriotism more 
than any appellation derived from either local or racial discrimi¬ 
nations. 


THE COMMON DEFENCE 

It is the fixed policy of the American people to observe good 
faith toward all nations and to do justice to them all. We wish to 
continue on terms of peace and friendship with the whole world, 
and we indorse and support the movement designed to make increas¬ 
ingly difficult and improbable a resort to force in the settlement of 
international differences. But we assert the right of America to 
Oppose any violation of international agreements to which it is a 
party, and its duty to insist upon the security and guarantees of the 
law of nations. 

We advocate complete preparation for the common defence— 
economic, industrial, and financial as well as military. 

For defence against attack from without we rely first upon the 
navy. We urge that it be provided with a General Staff and so en¬ 
larged in ships, in officers, and in men, and so supplemented by ves¬ 
sels auxiliary to the fighting force of such types as experience has 
shown to be necessary for effectiveness, that it will constitute a 
well-organized, a complete and a certain defense against attack, 
both on the Atlantic and on the Pacific. We believe that the nation 


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should continue to follow the advice of Washington and avoid “the 
necessity of those overgrown military establishments which, under 
any form of government, are inauspicious to liberty.” But we also 
believe in the vital principle of democracy, enacted into law under 
Washington’s administration, that every citizen owes the freeman’s 
duty of defence for his country and of the training necessary to 
make that defence effective. “The Republican Party stands for the 
gospel of patriotic service to our country by every citizen according 
to his ability in peace and in war.” So long as present conditions 
continue to prevail in other parts of the world, the military estab¬ 
lishment of the United States should be substantially strengthened. 
The regular army should be made adequate to perform its tra¬ 
ditional duty of serving as the nation’s first line of land defence, and 
of being the nucleus and the source of instruction and administration 
of the army of citizen soldiers, upon which in the last event the safety 
of the nation must depend. Provision should be made for the effect¬ 
ive training of such a citizen soldiery under the sole authority of the 
national government. A sufficient supply of the machines and mu¬ 
nitions of war should be ready at hand in case the necessity for their 
use should ever be forced upon the American people. Experience 
has shown that in time of war what a nation stints in materials, it 
squanders in human life. The most fatuous extravagance is to 
provide an inadequate supply. Less than enough is foolish waste. 

The enlargement of the naval and military establishments should 
be for purposes of defence alone. We support no policy of foreign 
conquest or domination or of interference with the independence and 
internal policies of any other people. Should the nations of the 
world, on the conclusion of the present war, be ready to join in new 
and well-secured international policies for the limitation of arma¬ 
ments and for the extension of the rule of law, there should be will¬ 
ing and complete co-operation on our part. 

Since timely disbursement to prepare for danger frequently 
prevents much greater disbursement to repel it, we favor meeting 
the necessary expense of complete preparation for the common 
defence by the application of the resources already at the command 
of the government and by just revision of the tariff in accordance 
with Republican principles. We assert that these measures, with the 
economies practicable under proper budget system, will be sufficient. 


ENFORCEMENT OF INTERNATIONAL LAW 

We believe that it is the duty of the American Government to 
bear its part in re-establishing international law and providing it with 


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sufficient sanctions. If the law of nations is to be binding, and if the 
decisions of tribunals charged with the application of that law to 
international controversies are to be respected and enforced, then 
violations of the law that are of such a character as to threaten the 
peace and order of the community of nations must be deemed to be 
a violation of the right of every civilized nation to have the law main¬ 
tained, and a legal injury to every nation. In order to bear its proper 
part in carrying forward this world policy, America must show that 
while it has no purpose to interfere in controversies between other 
nations, it will insist upon universal observance of the principles and 
rules of international law. 

MEXICO 

No patriotic citizen will embarrass the government of his country 
in its dealings with other nations; but it is not possible to regard, 
without the gravest dissatisfaction and dismay, the results of the 
policy of the present administration toward Mexico. That policy 
which has been proclaimed as one of watchful waiting, has in reality 
been one of active but uncertain, inconsistant and irresponsible inter¬ 
ference. The Wilson administration destroyed established govern¬ 
ment in Mexico and now stands on on.e side while anarchy and 
chaos reign in that country. It has stood aloof while American men 
have been killed, American women outraged, and American property 
destroyed. Intervention in the internal affairs of Mexico by the 
Administration has inflicted upon the Mexican people and upon all 
foreigners resident in Mexico anarchy, bloodshed, and suffering 
almost without parallel. We demand that American rights in 
Mexico shall be protected. This should be done either by a re¬ 
sponsible Mexican government, or through co-operation with other 
American republics in such a way as shall secure the independence, 
good order, and prosperity of Mexico. 

THE PHILIPINES 

We denounce the measure regarding the Philipine Islands that 
has passed the Senate and is now pending in the House of Repre¬ 
sentatives as an abandonment of the duty of this nation and a breach 
of trust' toward the Filipinos. Under the Wilson Administration the 
work begun under President McKinley and continued under the sub¬ 
sequent Republican administrations, in improving the material, intel¬ 
lectual and political welfare of the Filipinos and in building up a 
civil service on the merit system, goes for naught. The policies ad¬ 
vocated by the Democratic party, will, if persisted in, almost cer- 


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tainly lead to factional disturbance and inter-tribal war and to the 
seizure of the Islands by some foreign power. 

TARIFF COMMISSION 

We demand the restoration of the Republican policy of a tariff 
commission with ample power to inquire into matters of cost, pro¬ 
duction and labor conditions in this and other countries, and to sup¬ 
ply the Congress with the fullest possible and most accurate in¬ 
formation for guidance in the formulation of a permanent tariff policy 
that shall adequately protect American labor as well as conserve and 
develop American natural resources and American industry. We con¬ 
demn the destruction by the Democratic Party of the non-partisan 
Tariff Commission established under the administration of President 
Taft. 

The Democratic traiff now in force has proved wholly inade¬ 
quate either to provide revenue for the support of the government or 
to protect American labor and American industry upon the farm, in 
the factory, or in the mine. Before the outbreak of the European 
War, the disastrous effects of this tariff were already felt through¬ 
out the land. The war has obscured these effects, but immediately 
upon the restoration of peace they will be felt again with redoubled 
force. 


GOVERNMENT AND BUSINESS 

We favor such legislation and such administrative action as will 
relieve honestly conducted business from persecution, while rigidly 
preventing monopoly, special privilege or unfair practices. The same 
charity should be given to the law prohibiting combinations and 
monopolies that characterizes other provisions of commercial law in 
order that no part of the field of business opportunity may be re¬ 
stricted, that business success honorbly achieved may not be sud¬ 
denly converted into crime, and that the right of every man to 
acquire commodities in an open market may be preserved. 

We insist that government regulation of business be not inter¬ 
preted to mean government management of business. 

We advocate measures' 

(1) for the quick upbuilding of an American merchant marine 
by the methods that have given us industrial independence and with¬ 
out the economic waste and the international embarrassments of 
government ownership, direct or indirect; (2) for the encouragement 
and development of co-operation among farmers in order that they 

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may secure better and steadier markets for their products, as well as 
more favorable terms of credit for the improvement of their farms 
and the development of agriculture; and (3) for the amendment of 
the Federal Reserve Law so as to increase its public benefits and 
remove all danger of possible inflation of the currency. 

In support of these principles and policies the Republicans of 
New York pledge themselves to the Republicans of the nation, to 
join with them to the end that there may be a new birth of American 
patriotism and that a new pride and strength may be given to 
American citizenship. 

On January 1, 1915, after four years of chaos, disorder, and ex¬ 
travagance, the Republican Party was returned to power in the State 
of New York. Order and efficiency have been restored, constructive 
legislation has been enacted, and our State Government has been 
placed in a position where the orderly progress of government is 
possible once more. 


We commend Governor Whitman, the Legislature, and the entire 
Republican administration. We commend the Governor particularly 
for the courage with which he has faced the financial necessities of 
the State, and for his efforts to reform our fiscal system so as to 
insure economy and adequate public knowledge and discussion of 
the State’s business. 


REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE ON DELEGATES-AT-LARGE 
AND ALTERNATE DELEGATES-AT-LARGE 
TO THE NATIONAL CONVENTION. 

The Chair recognized the Gentlemen from Monroe, Mr. Arget- 
singer, who presented the following report from the Committee: 

The Committee on Delegates-at-Large and Alternate Delegates- 
at-Large reports that the Hon. James W. Wadsworth, Jr., the Hon 
Charles S. Whitman, the Hon. Frederic C Tanner and the Hon. Elon 
R. Brown are hereby recommended to the enrolled Republicans of 
the State of New York to be voted for at the Primary April 4th, 
1916, as Delegates-at-Large from the State of New York, and that 
Hon. Edward H. Butler, Hon. Jesse Phillips, Mr. Cornelius N. Bliss, 
Jr., and Mr. Charles W. Anderson be recommended as Alternate 
Delegates-at-Large from the State of New York to the Republican 
National Convention to be held in Chicago, June 7th, 1916. 


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THE CHAIRMAN: Gentlemen, the question is upon the adop¬ 
tion of the report. Those in favor say “Aye”. Contrary “No”. 

The report was unanimously adopted. 

The Chairman of the Convention announced the following Gom- 
mittee on Petitions: 

Jacob A. Livingston, of Kings, 

Samuel S. Koenig, of New York, 

Ellis J. Staley, of Albany, 

Willis Wendell, of Montgomery, 

Willard A. Rill, of Onondaga, 

Lafayette B. Gleason, of Delaware, 

James L. Hotchkiss, of Monroe, 

M. S. Niland, of Niagara, 

John J. Brown, of Westchester. 

MR. ARGETSINGER: I move that the Committee on Peti¬ 
tions have authority to fill vacancies in the recommendations for 
Delegates-at-Large and Alternate Delegates-at-Large to the Nat¬ 
ional Convention, which may occur prior to the primary, which mo¬ 
tion was carried. 

Mr. Koenig of New York moved that the Convention now ad¬ 
journ without date, which motion was carried. 

CHAIRMAN WADSWORTH: This Convention now stand* 
adjourned. 


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